I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.