Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

I am very much in love with no one in particular.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

He kissed my palm, lingering his lips on my skin. Then he inhaled. "Mmmm, " he moaned. " Like gin to an alcoholic. Sweet as fresh molasses and deadly as snake venom.

I just go and play hard. That's who I am.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."

Trust me, true?" Butch barked a laugh. "Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?