"Lotus Eaters is a movie about people who can't really be alone, but they're always alone, really, even when they're together."

“Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.”

“A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1968). “Garden open tomorrow”, Butterworth-Heinemann

“If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.”

“Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.”

“Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.”

“I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.”

“I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.”

“It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.”