I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

He didn’t know if he was amused or unsettled by her ability to unbalance him the way she had. Correction. He didn’t know if he was amused, unsettled or pleased by her ability.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine.I Am Mine

I have never been one to fall when I can jump.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.