"Those are two very interesting descriptions. I guess, when I think performer, I tend to think entertaining. I tend to think, comedy. I tend to think, winning over an audience. I tend to think, that there’s something about that quality of wanting to have people enjoy themselves."

"See, it’s funny. I don’t think of the roses, and I don’t think of her body and the poster, and I don’t think of those things as the beauty. I think of the bag. I think that there are things we miss that are right in front of us that are truly beautiful."

"And then I think more … recently contemporary, when I think of the work that Philip Seymour Hoffman did, and Heath Ledger, and people that, when I think about what they could be doing, what they could do, what they would’ve done had they stayed with us, I’m so excited when I go into a cinema, or I go into a play, and I completely am taken to some place that I believe exists, and characters that become real."