I know I haven't done it. I've done a couple of films, which were intended to go straight up. Thankfully they didn't. So now, I think that's what I need to do. I just need to grow as an actor.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

I think it's quite good to have an amount of unavailability.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

I don't think I've got enough energy to be competitive! Most of my energy is just devoted to me being nervous and trying to deal with the situation.

The only person I can amaze is me.

Noah?"A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I left the bathroom.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

Only be with somebody if they make you feel like the best version of yourself. You can't sacrifice yourself for anybody, you know?

Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.

Women really like the horses, more so than men.

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract