I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

Every day I turned a 'you can't' into a 'you can.'

How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.