I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

My family and school life are important to me.

People have good and bad days.

I was an international studies major.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation].

Dicing with death is one man’s cup of tea, but another man’s poison. I just didn’t fear anything.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

Energy and art go where they will.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

Whenever you have to fall, fall carefully!

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.