I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I had to stand in front of my refrigerator, which was open, dipping pretzels in cream cheese and stuffing them in my mouth. If I did that, I was good. Otherwise I was nauseous.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life

You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal

We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.

When you are focused on what you're doing, you are not going to miss the next opportunity ... it's more likely that you get more!

Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.

Oh my God, you're such a guy!" "I'm glad you noticed." The glint in his dark eyes was purely wicked.

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.