I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Adversity tries You Before it tries the rest

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

sorry,no thanks,if i was going to die it could wait until tomorrow morning.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.