I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

We want time in with our kids not time out.

You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, shoot again.

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.