I didn't feel entitled to become a star. I didn't expect it.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

That was one tiny trailer when both girls wanted to watch TV or use the computer or the bathroom at the same time.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

In digital, you can maintain the quality.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes.