I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

If the universe is anything, it should be fun.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws!

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.

The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.

You have to stand out if you want to move up.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.