I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.