The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

I’m not perfect.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

You can be happy where you are.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don’t, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that’s fine, but I can’t work like that.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.