[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.

I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.