If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in.

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me.

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

A small mind can never have a big result, for whatever you cannot see, you cannot have

The brighter stars emerge out of the blackest darkness.

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Evolution is faith, a religion.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.