Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.