When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.

Just remember, though you may have an ample set of well-wishers who would pray for you, there would always be an extra set of prayer called out for you in some part of the world.

Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.