Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.

Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again.

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role