My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

The outside world can be very tough.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money, doesn't that make it the root of all evil?

fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel

A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere. It's the life you’re living in the dress.

It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.