It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time

When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

Yeah, because when you’re attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you don’t act like you kissed Adolf Hitler.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.