Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

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. 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.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

I would never walk off any show.