I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

A Lyons skin is never cheape.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.