"I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still."

"You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol."

"It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?"

"When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies."

"It is a unyielding truth that stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 98 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 38."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

"It is a subtle truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."