The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear.

Mortality was never designed to torture you. It was designed to test you.

I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.

Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

History is made by those who say no.

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.