I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

When you strive for excellence in leadership, then you will excel as a leader.

The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.

You were...are...what I heard. Every note.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

He is an interesting player - short back legs.

The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.