Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

I wanted to go to the underdog team - I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other guys who stayed home at Maryland, like Vernon Davis and players like that. I wanted to stay home and do it in front of my family and my friends... Those thing matter to me.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

I've heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of 'Skinny Love.'

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

Dont be led around by the nose.

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Abdias do Nascimento was the first writer who gave me racial consciousness. It was through his books and writings that I first took in the real weight of race in our society. He was the main influence on me because in my family, race was never an issue.

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.

I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.