There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Your words and actions must match to build your character. Any gap in those will put a dent in your credibility. Be a man of your words.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

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

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.