A lot of times you'll do a movie, and you'll be working with adults with families and kids and stuff. There's a level - you guys aren't going to be hanging out every second, you know?

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.

She was the best friend he’d ever had, and he’d tried to resist messing it up, tried not to feel anything else for her, but it was inevitable. He was meant to love Gemma Carlson.

Life can be a waste by jesting and joking away their time.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.