I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who desire control.

Success will bring recognition, money and all other pleasures of life

I'm happy and thankful that people are messing with the Dolla $ign.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.