I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Archers are pretty focused.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

Everything that people say is testable.

But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.