For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Consciousness does matter. Matter is secondary. Consciousness is primary. Brain does not do consciousness, consciousness does the brain.

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.

I believe in Darwin and God together.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.