A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.

When I was modeling as a teenager, I just ignored it when people said to lose two inches off my hips. I had more jobs than I could take. So why would I even want more?

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Each character is a completely whole person with their problems and many sides to their personality. It's so rich with details as well, like the set.

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils.

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Its cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.