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

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.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.