I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.

If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.

Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.