They can only kill us once..

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religio….

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself..

I outlived the bastards..

Relationships are based on trust until you meet someone new..

We only understand that which already is within us..

I just don't like being told what to do..

Every thought was once a poem..

You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them..

What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures..

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of..

Faith in faith is faith astray..

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny..

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise.".

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we ….

Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the syst….

I thought equality was non-negotiable..

It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you..

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's..