I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

Being a teenager is hard.

Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'

Act because you love to act.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather than how famous you are.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don’t want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?

I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

We don’t have time, we just have a moment in time.

What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that's not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.