I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

To see others’ faults is a terrible mistake!

Somehow, we both got carried away. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.

Every new morning is new moment in time.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.

You gotta judge a man by his principles.