"The Notebook" is one of my favorite love stories.

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow.

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

I don't feel bound by my face or my body. I don't feel like that's the biggest gift I have to offer the world. I feel like there are more parts of me to offer than that.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

I dont like it when people dont hold the door. I dont know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.

I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldn’t have to.

The chit is semi-animate (half-alive) and the mind is completely physical.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience.

The sword was not the kingdom, he says.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.