I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.

I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.

As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.

I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.

Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.

I just think that movies are really fake; they should be fake.

The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry

You don’t hear what I hear.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Oh, no, it can't be teardrops 'Cause a man ain't supposed to cry.

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

I crave the diversity because I'm an actor and it's more fun to play different types of characters, but I'm pretty spontaneous as well, so I don't rule anything out.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.