Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

Humor is very healing.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

Violet unwrapped everything old as if it were a ribboned gift given to her by the Gods.

Gunfire cracked around them. “Just warning shots, ” he yelled. “How do you know?” “We’re not dead.

As she gobbled up the miles, big ravines appeared before her, their starving mouths open for the swallow.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.