"It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister."

“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.”

“I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."”

Source : "An interview with Antonis Samaras, Greek prime minister, on austerity and unrest". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 2012.

“I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher!”

“Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.”

“When things start becoming second nature, I get a little paranoid because I feel like maybe my craft isn't evolving. I get a lot of gratification when I do something that's really quick. Like if you've got someone who's really twitchy, like Lady Gaga. I have never in my life seen someone move that much in a chair. I said, "Look, your hair's knackered, you wear wigs all the time. Let's cut it off." It took 10 minutes.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I think that in performing, everybody's path is so so different, that there's nobody where I think, "Oh my god, that's exactly what happened to me."”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

“I'm proud of being Hispanic.”

“I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.”