I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

Be yourself. No one else can.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Jebediah Woodley is one of those guys that when I'm sitting in my rocking chair one day, thinking back, I'll remember that guy. He was a fun guy to play.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.