Marketing is the devil.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

Every bees hony is sweet.

The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again: Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are here again!

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.