I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Doing the right thing has power.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Girls are very complicated creatures, they make you give up and then they say” I knew you would give up”.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

Yesterday President Obama said, 'We can't continue to treat tax money like monopoly money.' Oh really - how come all those guys on Wall Street got 'get out of jail free' cards?

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.