All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

Creating anything is hard.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Just like you fell on me, I fell for you, and the sensation of the fall happened so fast but in a beautiful way.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

My life is full, and I love it. Acting is the frosting on the cake for me.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.

But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people