There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them?

She was wrapped in my jacket, almost swallowed by it. You never realize how small a woman is until she wears your clothes.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

When you say you love me, it doesn't matter. It goes into my head as just chit-chatter. You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free, But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.