Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

Even a genius has his questions.

Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.