"I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me."

"Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish."

"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."

"Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy."

"And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead."

"We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack."

"We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is."

"When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded."