If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Five Ups of life: Buckle up, Start up, Keep it up, Don’t give up, Cheer up.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.