At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.

Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.

You cannot starve a man who is feeding on God's promises.

I'm not a horror fans as much as I'm a fan of thrillers.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

When the Word is stored in the heart, the individual finds it a wonderful power in preserving him from outbreaking sin.

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

You can teach a bubbly person to repair shoes, but you can't put the personality into a grumpy cobbler.John Timpson

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab.

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.