If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.