Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

Darren Criss in particular enjoys his spanking. In case you were curious.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

I'm not going to let our fans down.

You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I'll get you out of here, no matter what.