To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

You don't have to be good all the times. It's okay to be hurt sometimes. It's okay to feel lost like you're wandering around the dark. It's the bad days that make the good ones so much better.

Even if god was proved beyond doubt that he did not exist. We would still believe in him. We don't need hard facts, we need true emotions.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.

It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.