The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.

Dogs just need you and love, that's all.

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

I always cry at weddings, they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be.

I'm always amazed that if you pick up a script of something you played years ago, it all comes back so quickly. Even in your body, you remember your blocking and how it felt.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

Leaders set the context and create the conditions in which individuals and organizations thrive.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

Be an opener of doors