When I was modeling as a teenager, I just ignored it when people said to lose two inches off my hips. I had more jobs than I could take. So why would I even want more?

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Each character is a completely whole person with their problems and many sides to their personality. It's so rich with details as well, like the set.

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.