I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

She turned the key, never taking her eyes from him.

Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.

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.

I am me, therefore I am the best.