"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it."

"My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little."

"I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much."

"My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up."

"I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood."

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

"Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently."

"To master the mind is to understand that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."