My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Sometimes the first draft will come out at 200 pages. I think and think and I go, "um this story is about the brother that appears on page 178." I go back and I rewrite.

Being an actor/ writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to be cast into something and then you create the role. You almost have a voice inside of you telling you what you might want to play and be able to play. It's hard, but once that thing comes out of the printer and you hold those warm pages to your cheek it's great. It's a huge sense of accomplishment.

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.