I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

Dogs just need you and love, that's all.

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

I always cry at weddings, they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be.

I'm always amazed that if you pick up a script of something you played years ago, it all comes back so quickly. Even in your body, you remember your blocking and how it felt.

The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty now comes to me.

Your people come first, and if you treat them right, they'll treat the customers right.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

Always listen for what you can leave out.

I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting.