The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.