First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

My family and school life are important to me.

People have good and bad days.

I was an international studies major.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, OK!

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like."

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.