I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.

God always exalts the humble.

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

Melissa Pritchard is a treasure.

Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.