I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

Not every problem can be solved. Some are okay simply to avoid. Go around the, go under them, whatever it takes to reach your higher goal. Sometimes you have to fail your way to success.

He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.

Screw the beaten path! Do your thing. Write the best story you can. the rest will fall into place.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

My younger years were filled with fear; my todays are filled with confidence.

when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

Treat each other the way you would like to be treated.

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.