I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

In embracing your difficulties is liberation.

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it.

There are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof-Ellie O'Neill, This is What Happy Looks Like

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

Fate decides until challenged by the fated

I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.