I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

Stay with me; I want to be alone

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world.

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

Any parents are as ordinary human beings as others, making them angels or even more is up to their next generation.

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

You can disagree with someone on issues, but you should never get personal. Joe Biden has never gotten personal, to my knowledge, with a fellow senator.

Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know.

Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

When we think about our strengths, we are strong. When we think about our weaknesses, we are weak.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.