Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer.

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em. Especially with the stuff they wrote about Jessica and I - it's obviously not true.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.

Do you really believe in what you said or wrote – in the thing that’s bringing criticism? And if I do believe it, I can withstand anything.