I would rather be a person who struggled there than someone who had a great, easy time and then got out in the world and was like, "Wait a minute, I didn't get voted class president? What's going on?" You know, "popular" doesn't necessarily correlate to anything. "Popular" still has to get up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work and do something worthy too. There's no edge, really, that you get from being whatever was popular in school.

I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.