The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?

The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul.

How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?