As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not ….

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions..

I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring..

Discover what you are..

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music..

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor..

I didn't not perform..

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings..

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

We are being programmed by mental pygmies..

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

Where I came from, no one was a writer..

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em..

Underconfidence breeds underachievement..

Relationships are based on trust until you meet someone new..

My hands and ears get me where I need to go..