...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

It is what we fear that happens to us.

Chennai is such a beautiful place to perform in. The city is lovely, and the people, even more so.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.