If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

My dad thought my head looked like a basketball, so he set one inside my crib.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

I am bubbly and talkative in real life.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli.

Good. I didn't hear the four a.m. rooster alarm." "I did," Taylor said. "It went on for like ten minutes before I rebooted it." "You rebooted a rooster?" "I think so. It stopped mid-crow.

I found that joy can be acquired like a habit, in the same way as a folded sheet of paper falls naturally into the same fold.

That information motivated me to get to a healthy weight so I could have a healthy mind.

Some things you do for you. You do them because it gives you great satisfaction and it puts a smile on your face and that's it. And that's fine. It's not just fine, it's necessary. It makes you a better person, it fills your soul, it opens you up to life in its fullness. So don't apologize for it, enjoy it.

Boredom, cynicism, and despair are spiritual diseases because they disconnect us from the most primal truth about ourselves—that we are here.