I really realized how much happier I am when I'm doing projects that I'm chosen to do, and on the flip side, how much unhappier I am on projects that make me feel uncomfortable.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist.

I try not to be judgmental. I meditate twice a day. I get some sort of physical exercise. I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.

If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.

My whole day revolves around food. If you think you've won the day, only because you haven't eaten over 1,000 calories, you know that things are off-kilter. That's not a healthy way to be thinking.

I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

My wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around.

You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

Sometimes I wish I could feel more painso I could touch that much more beauty.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.