What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Did not. My stubbornness doesn’t even own a gun. My stubbornness is a pacifist.

True affluence is not needing anything.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.