Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose. - Luca Guadagnino

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She certainly seemed to have a life, not just an existence. She seemed happy. It must be possible, then.― Gail Honeyman

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I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

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An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me. ― Michel Houellebecq

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You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within. ― Dan Howell

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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

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You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push. ― Carrie Ryan

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

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