The HARDEST PART about BREAKING UP is the next day, opening your notebook only you see I LOVE YOU scribbled all over.

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

Our bodies are made to nurture and cuddle and all of those amazing things that come along with being a mom.

For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

if you belive in something then you should do it dont let anything stand in your way.

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

It's hard enough to go through puberty. Everyone's embarassed about their youth, but if just happens that the '80s were particularly disgusting. Flock of Seagulls is not cool.

Sometimes it's easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old.

I don't want terror in America.

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.

The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.