I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Sit there and look pretty.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

All requires courage.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.