My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools’ Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils’ Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade.

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

She has her own brand of strength, brought to the surface by the dim glow of the streetlight and the whisper of night air on her skin.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.