I hate hearing about actors who don't like the show. There are so many actors out there who'd give their right arm for what I'm getting to do.

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.

Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowed, and a shiny line of snot trickles from her nose to the top of he

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.