Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

I keep everything that's private private.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun, I love changing up my hair.

That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]

Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday.

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.