My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

Werewolf games, " Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.

When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.