I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots

In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.