It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.

A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.

Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.