That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

I did bully somebody. I was insecure.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if its not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

I feel as though I've been very fortunate in my career, which is not all that long, so far.

If you're not intimidated or maybe a little weary of taking on a role, then it may not be challenging enough and it may not be worth doing.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Never mistake motion for action.

I live in Portland now. It's beautiful from day one. The Food and the beer, and no sales tax. Get your iPad while you're here.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!