Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.
He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life. " I want to make my own history.
There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.
I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to be fewer people with financial and banking experience - there are more lawyers, academics, economists, maybe politicians now.
They say, "Gee, you look great. " That means they thought you looked like hell before.