I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

You're very naive and innocent, and don't understand a lot of things yet.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.

I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.