I'm tired of playing the brat.

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.

What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.