Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.
We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice.
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
I spend a lot more time on my wardrobe than my makeup routine and usually have to be told to brush my hair!
I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.
When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, 'I don't want to buy that.' There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.
Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.
I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.
I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin - and it took a lot of praying to discover this - that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him.
As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.
The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.
I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.
I've always done a lot of stunts in the past, and I sound like I'm tooting my own horn here, but I've always impressed the people I've worked with, and they've let me do more and more.
I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.
Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.
But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
I'm from the burbs. I've been in the hood, but I don't live there. I have lived in the hood, but I don't live there anymore. I lived in Harlem, and that was crazy, even though Harlem is a lot nicer than it used to be.
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better.
I'm young and I have a lot of experience and I learn quickly.
I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.
I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director, so it's really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time.
I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.
People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.
