I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Our ego occupies so much space, there is little room for anything else.

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry.

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Home is where you hang your head.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

Your field of focus determines what you find in life.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.