I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

Grieving is not a race, nor is it a predictable experience - it is as unique as each and every one of us. Therefore by creating your own path you will find your own way through.

And just as I thought that my happy ending was beginning, it had to end so soon even though it hadn't started yet.

You have to accept yourself, and you have to realize that you're beautiful.

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.