The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

The message sent is not always the message received.

Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.

A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

[Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating some kind of violent reaction, you know. But, you know, I admire that.

There's a couple of times that I did it for the... paycheck. Even when I was younger - I remember I did this movie that wasn't good, called '1969.' I totally did it 'cause I could get out of school.

I'm part of the crew obsessed with 'The Wire.' Like, I'm not over that yet.

I was unusual looking - I didn't have the look of that time. If you look at 'Lucas' - and, basically, my first five or six movies - the characters are not described in the scripts as attractive people.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

If only one had time to think!