Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

Belly buttons are cool!

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle.

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.