That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.

You know what, the moment I see you, first thing that comes to my mind is, I have just wasted 26 years of my life without you...

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

The roughest road often leads to the top.

I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.