I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

Why would any woman agree to be on a show called Bridezillas? It's not like men would agree to be on Douchegroom.

Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

The Tao is told is not the Tao.

Your own body is a manifestation of God, and if you honor your body everything will change for you

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.