I can make cookies and do easy stuff. Pies are very specific and hard to do well though.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

She's lost in thought. I'm lost in her.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

The whole world is one neighborhood.

I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels.

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.