Before I was married I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star whatever that means you might be setting yourself up for failure.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money how you want to raise kids who is going to work or stay home or what have you then you've set yourself up for failure.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

There is no winning or losing but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in whether it's a fantasy game the Wild West secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

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.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen especially 60-feet high. As an actor it is an uncomfortable experience.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel anything you read all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Find what's hot find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

When I was young I was just about hard work. But as I got older I did experience anxiety doubt judgment and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music it pays you back more than you give.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself and your imagination and experience but actually in the end you're not playing yourself.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame other than a terminal illness where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment education creates dangerous stupefying conformity.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself and the more preparation you can do the less chance of failing.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See you did it yourself.'

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can but then by God do something. Don't just stand there make it happen.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to be done whether you like it or not.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles your dreams your telephone number.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.