There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

Experience is only half of experience.

I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.

If I can make something real and it's appreciated and accessible to other people, I'm happy.

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.