I'm a control freak except that I'm a good team player. So I obsess about the details of things but I also trust the team.

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.

Believe not your own brother - believe instead your own blind eye.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

If you don't follow your dream, who will?

I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief.

We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.

Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.