I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I should probably never describe myself as adorable.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.

The absurd is sin without God.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

I do yoga daily as well. I need to start the day with some sort of physical activity. That combined with the meditation clears my mind and energizes me.

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?