I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

Life is long and dumb and devastating. People should believe whatever they need to believe to get by.

If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!

Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.

We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.