I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

Thats why they call it work because its not what youd prefer to do with your free time.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

My father was an agnostic.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

My father started me singing in church.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.