There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I can’t sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.

That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.

I'm a restaurant junkie.

Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.