It's only hubris if I fail.
One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.
I get way too much happiness from good food.
My favorite thing about acting is you have to learn how to work with people that you probably would never try to. Some people just aren't supposed to be in a room together, and you have to be in a room with a group of people who might not all get along and you have to figure out how to come together for one thing. That collaboration is special, and people don't get to exercise that. I think that's why people become stubborn, and I think that's why people become uninspired to change. In this job you have to.
I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.
I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.
I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.
When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.
But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.