You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails you think 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

It was a very profound experience getting in touch with that part of us in all of us human beings that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have including your life for other people for your fellow man.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

You know it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope someday we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

I just go where my heart tells me where my gut tells me to go where I'm enjoying my life the most where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR to the point that I want to do it full time.