I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best.

I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.