It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.

The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.

If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on them at that time. In fact, he discovered the model species Dictyostelium discoideum, which is the species used in the majority of the experimental work today.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

Greatness lies not in being strong but in the right use of strength.

A complacent player is a lazy player and a lazy player is a loser.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.

I've teamed up with Pine Sol to celebrate the makers of home.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

War is an admission of failure.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.