I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

You are not your thoughts, and you are not the product of your thoughts.

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, pilates or meditation.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. There are so many of her movies that I love.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.