I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

The chili I ate made for an explosive bathroom experience. I don't know how to put this delicately, but I missed the toilet entirely.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place.

After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.

Without an abundance of hope and happiness, it will be difficult to accumulate an abundance of wealth.

The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

The mentality, that's something you should be able to control. Whether you are healthy or not, how fast you can run - they aren't things you can work on, but the mentality should be.

I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at all.