My perfect Sunday is waking up at 10 - which, you know, those days are over for me - but waking up at 10, breakfast with children, hanging out with well-behaved children.

The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.

I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.

I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.

I was early in my career and didn't understand that people were looking at me and critiquing me yet.

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.Drizzt Do'Urden

Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.