What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools.

I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem to be falling for it.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.

Schools teach you how to work for money, but don't teach how to make money work for you