I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

I have no prejudice against male or female.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

Outfield to infield is the most jarring because in the outfield, you have much more time to throw.

I think there's a point at which money, influence, and power become so blinding that people believe they control the world.

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.

Just like the first breath of life, any engine must be triggered in order to turn it on.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

People want real food. The demand for it is through the roof.

Love and express your feelings to the people you love when you still have the time to do so.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Being physical is something I pride myself on.

Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

And he departed from our sight and we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup's new product and its market.

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.