It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

Sometimes funny is all you've got.

The emotion she could deal with best was anger.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.

A certain blue enters your soul

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.