I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

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.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

Come what may and hell to pay.

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

Haters never seem to realize that jealousy is an infinite torture to which you condemn yourself.

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.