It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

It's pain that changes our lives.

My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.