Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

I'm on the Web a lot. I like to play games online. Sometimes I play Sims.

One fan asked me to sign their sock. That was crazy. They just took off their shoe and handed me their sock and asked if I'd sign it.

I might die if I forget how to breathe.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

Live free, dream loud, be inspired, find your power.

The thought that is billed at the price of fear and flattery is as inconsolable as that which is paid for at the price of gold. - On Fear and Thought.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.

Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.