I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

What you expect, it will find the way to appear.

My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought hibernation only existed in fairy tales.

The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more you entertain your unhappiness

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow

And when I'm in my car I'm laid back I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat But that's flat

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.