People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

I always had an actor within me.

Now, " said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve.

Don't pound your chest when it's all good, then blame God when it's all bad.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

I make music with no boundaries.

The problem is the Democrat Party is not Bill Clinton's party anymore.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment