Everybody wants to be liked, and if you're saying otherwise, you're lying.

I am not aware I am an icon.

I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge.

I'm not a runner. I do not like running. I love to swim. I love to surf. I do not like to run.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm...

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.

Sometimes it's all about hype, and I didn't want hype.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

My theory is that I'm just closer to the sun than everyone else. I weigh more than everyone else, I'm taller than everyone else. When it's really humid and hot outside it's going to take a bigger toll...

I can lie to everybody, but I can never lie to myself.

I'm not as careful as I appear, which is why I choose not to do social media. It's really because I don't trust myself. I'm also very easily influenced by my feelings and will impulsively act on my...

How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It's the same person...

I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.

My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking...

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.

I am a better cook than actor.

I'm humble because I think many years ago people said, 'Well, Alibaba's a terrible company.' And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when...

It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out...

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued...

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.