I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

The purpose of living is living for a purpose.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.