The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

Some people are boys longer than others.

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

But here we see the peace of God is not the absence of negative thoughts, it is the presence of God himself.

What's interesting is that my style is a lot crazier than what I project out there. It's a lot edgier.

I've learned that anything is possible.

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.