I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.

That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now.

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

A man's perfection is his work.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.