We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

I learned from her that every woman is worriedabout her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.