You can never stop discovering music.

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.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

All the arguing in the world won't change the mind of the Umpire.

Some guy hit my fender the other day and I said unto him "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which lends itself to a less than ideal film.

It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.