When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

Do something today you've been afraid to do. A decision based on fear is the wrong decision.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it