Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

You named the chicken, Chicken?" She looked embarrassed. "When we decided not to kill it, I got attached.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.