I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

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

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.

No situation is beyond the strength within.

Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths

In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.