I definitely work pretty hard to stay present and focused. I've also tried to create a life for myself where I'm surrounded by honest, loyal, and funny people, because I like to laugh.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

We are not eternity conscious enough.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.