It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

The world is still very bigoted.

Inspirational people weren't meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!