But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.

I'm not afraid of aging.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

The moment we begin to believe we have got something about God figured out with certainty is the moment we can be sure we are no longer speaking about God.

Let's take off the masks and get real so we can get it right with God.

Thoughts repeated over time, no matter how incorrect, become consolidated in our minds as beliefs because we’ve repeatedly affirmed them over and over again.

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.