I'm pretty good with languages.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

Disasters teach us humility.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

I hate Illinois Nazis.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.