I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

I'm going to live to be twenty-five, ' she said, 'then die.

The drug problem’ cannot be understood without a critical examination of the language and narratives of underpinning the explanatory models invoked to prove that there is a 'drug problem.

Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no cant. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.