I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Always be true to yourself

A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.

For when the mind becomes bound to a passion of the wandering senses, this passion carries away man's wisdom, even as the wind drives a vessel on the waves.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

If you really love, then you're willing to step outside of your own love to do that which is right.

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.