It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, ….

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing..

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time..

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it..

Pretending is a very valuable life skill..

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can..

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you..

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself..

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift..

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work..

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between wo….

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life..

There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today..

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy..

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us..

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there..

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength..

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you..

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too..

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head..