I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.

Live your best dreams.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.