I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

Pain is only temporary, glory is forever

How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.