I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American.

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff...unless we are standing by a cliff.

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.