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

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.

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.

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

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.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:From time to time my heart is like some oakWhose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!