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

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.

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

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?"

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.

He tugs me closer, and my ankles lock behind him. "Is it PG-13 time?

We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.

Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

If you are not offending people, then you are not an evangelist.

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.