I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.