I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

As long as you stay determined, you will stay focused and you will succeed

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?