Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

I prefer intellect and charm. Good looks only take you so far.

It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

For the most part, I do not go out all that often, so it varies.

I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.

I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.

Good looks only take you so far. You don't have to be the best looking guy.

A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.

Pen and paper have been my life, now they may herald my death. But I asked for these, the traditional tools of my trade, and to my surprise my request has been granted.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

I think I may well be a Jew.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.