I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.

We hurt people, when we give ourselves more value than others.

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple, " he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

Once Iran gets nuclear weapons, they may believe that they are no longer vulnerable to either.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.