When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

Lifting lives, 140 characters at a time.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.