I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

Listen to me, you’ve got this. Seriously, you’ve got this.

I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus; What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.