It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Do not dare not to dare.

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That's good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

Doubt, but still hate!

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.