Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.