Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

I think I saw "Predator" when I was six. So I knew from a very young age that it wasn't real, but I just loved it.

People are like songs to me. About 60 seconds in, I'll know whether or not to add them to my 'favorites.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants).

My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.