When a thing you love faces adversity, you start to feel more protective of it. Also, you take an inventory all the time. You ask yourself, "Is this worth all my fighting?"

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

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.

Be that fragnance which fades in breezes of cold air but always gives intense smell.

War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

It's okay to rest. Jesus fights when you cannot.

Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.

We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend