Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

In this way, I was able to place my own concerns aside and curl myself up in the cocoon of somebody else's imagination. My life was suspended - I was in neither one place nor the other.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

I'm a complete and utter busker.

If you go with what Hillary [Clinton] is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.