The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos.

I've been really lucky because when I go out to L.A. it's for a job, not to look for a job. That's the way I like L.A. most - when I already have a job.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.