The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

Grace is a great mercy of God.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.