Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.

True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.