I have always been a good mimic.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

The skeleton of success is self-discipline

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing.

Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.