You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

I usually get recognized for Spaceballs.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.

I'm just a regular Baltimore chick who believed in God enough to follow her dreams.

I want my children to have all the things I couldnt afford. Then I want to move in with them.

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.

I don't eat sushi, but I eat cooked meat.

The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before my own power my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

You learn so much by having customers and figuring out what they want and keeping them satisfied.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Dogs and their well-being is one of my biggest passions in life. The Michael Vick case brought the issue of dogfighting to light... he knew what he was doing and never deserved to play in the NFL again.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

My mom used to be concerned 'cause I would never go outside. And when I'd go outside, I'd have friends, but I just was always in the house listening to music, practicing DJing all the time. Then my uncle got a keyboard, drum machine, so I'd just be in the house at 12, 13, just, like, messing up his presets. And my mom was like, 'My son is strange.'

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Good or bad everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

I'm a big zombie buff.