It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

...the villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.

She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.