You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

stay as strong as you can and during the times you can't, let other people be strong for you.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

All societies are historical.

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.