Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.
'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.
I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk
There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.
It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.
Once He created the Big Bang. . . He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better.
Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul. . . . it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.
You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.
I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.