The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be.

Dogs just need you and love, that's all.

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

I always cry at weddings, they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

I'm always amazed that if you pick up a script of something you played years ago, it all comes back so quickly. Even in your body, you remember your blocking and how it felt.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

You know, when I'm with my friends, I'm still 17.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.