If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

Donald Trump has this ability to reach out and touch the beast inside so many people.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

I am excited to have the opportunity to help provide the same swim instruction that I received as a child when I was enrolled in a water safety class at five-years-old.

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

Divorce is marital welfare.It’s just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn’t do enough research before they got married.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.