The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.