Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..

Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.