I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

The holiness of solitude is the gift of creativity.

I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die.

It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how do you tell the difference?

Figure out what you're passionate about. If you're not passionate about something, go find it. Because we do not need more unengaged boring people to inhabit this planet.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are.

one word could change the whole world

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.