I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

A passionate person says “over my dead body, I will never give up” and you ask him why, he answers “because I have found something not only to live on, but something to die for”!

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

For the United States, the ACA is a revolution, an enormous set of changes that many see as a huge step forward and many others see as a wrong turn.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.