I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

Never let anyone try and make you into something that you're not. Remember what it is that you want, and always stay strong in that.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

I like to have sleepovers.

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

Those who don't jump will never fly.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life."

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.