I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

Because there’s one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.

To fulfil the insatiable desire of God is to fit in into his need

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.