I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

I think I saw "Predator" when I was six. So I knew from a very young age that it wasn't real, but I just loved it.

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

No one man is superior to the game.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.