The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
Be who you like as long as you mean it.
I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.
Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.