My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.

Seeing a movie you're in is nothing like seeing a movie you're not in.

I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what they joke is the suburbs, the Upper West Side. I lived there for most of my childhood.

My parents are actually very hip. They're way hipper than me.

If you're in something and you feel like it's not going well, what can you do about that? It's out of your hands. No matter what you do, you're not going to fix that as an actor.

If you feel like you're working with good people, you give them your humanity and just let it happen.

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

It's always nice to have a large role, but if it's a great small part, those can be so much fun. Size is less important than quality, always.

Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

A lot of people say I'm like a pop girl, but I don't know what that means.

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

I have never been one to look beyond today.