I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

I haven't really addressed those rumors because why defend yourself against something that isn't offensive?

I know a lot of incredibly, profoundly talented, skilled people that aren't given certain opportunities or any opportunities, and that aren't working.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

The good chair is a task one is never completely done with

Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.