When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.