Acting is what happens on the way.

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.

Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

Sir, if you don't pay this bill by the close of business on Friday; we will be forced to disconnect your service.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.