Every accepted public quote

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.”

“If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind acti...”

“Biting the hand that feeds you, that's what you're doing Mary Logan, biting the hand that feeds you.' Again Mama laughed, 'If that's the case, Daisy, I don't think I need that little bit of...”

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

“Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.”

“I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with so...”

“It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.”

“One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'”

“You'll probably die if you stay with me,' he told me. 'Then I'm dead either way, because I won't survive without you.”

“Riches are for spending.”

“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

“It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.”

“She wore the moonlight like lingerie.”

“I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Verse XXVII”

“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of...”

“I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milk...”

“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”

“My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.”

“I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.”

“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”

“If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.”

“When the talent is torrential, the harvest is inevitable.”

“We all romanticize the people we adore.”

“I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was like, 'Bring it on!' I wanted to wear the higher heels and the skimpier bathing suit. I figured...”

“Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.”

“People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom.”

“This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.”

“If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.”

“But what is life if you don't live it?”

“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”

“Approach everyone in a silent mysterious manner so they cannot easily define you. People are more attracted to the mysterious than the obvious.”

“If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, including the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. No one will remain unscathed.”

“With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction.”

“The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day.”

“To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're proba...”

“If you're not careful, you will identify yourself through the eyes of those who don't see you how you see yourself. This is the importance of self love, the path to knowing yourself so deepl...”

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

“Choose people who lift you up.”

“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground...”

“Every challenge is a chance to succeed.”

“I have forgotten my umbrella.”

“God is dancing in our breath, singing in our thoughts, and celebrating in our DNA when you understand that God, fears evaporates and eternity arises.”

“I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wif...”