Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

The wider we read the freer we become.

Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

In fact I've probably never seen such a wide moat.

It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

Time trieth troth in every doubt.

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating