I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.

Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.

People aren't born racist.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.

The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

I've always liked women. But I don't want somebody who likes me because I'm famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me.

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock n roll movie.

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

I love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond his normal tetchiness, there were no more than a half-dozen moments of actual condemnation from him. He understood lies and also why you lied, and there was an absolution there that is very, very appealing.

I want to believe that memories even sad and painful ones should not be forgotten forever.

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate.

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