It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

I love pain. Love pain.

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

it's never been a plan to have this or that. It's just where I am in my life, at that time, and where my path is going to go.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

It is better to hug than shake hands.

The right relationship will bring out the best in you. If it doesn’t, it isn’t.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

As a Jew, your passions were so inflamed by that message, you made up a lie to implicate my client, isn't that true?

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!