I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that forces things to move.

Nothing is but what is now

We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of the present.

To learn etiquette, is actually learning how to see others, and respect them.

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

I just think it’s amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.