It helps me chill out and focus.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

I believe in using words, not fists.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

Children reinvent your world for you.

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

We've legalized marijuana recently. Medical marijuana, but the rest will come.

Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.

I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

If you always have to be watching yourself and judging, I don't think you're as free.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

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