I've never looked at acting like a job. It's never been like that.

I'm really close to my parents.

As an actor, you audition a lot for 'the girlfriend' or the 'hot girl.'

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.