Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

Hope is the believe that the promised will be fulfilled.

I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't." - Aibileen

Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.