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

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.

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.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

Shut the front door!” Jenna exclaimed.Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. “The door is shut?

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

The #1 key to spiritual warfare is prayer.

Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.

I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.