Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.

I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic.

I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

I like men who are more in their heads.

Wherever you are, you have to work for your living.

To the determined mind, nothing is impossible

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

If you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model.

I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.