I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.

My favorite web site is probably YouTube.

A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.