When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.

I know that's fun for people to talk about who are fans of the franchise, and it's fun to get to kind of have my own feelings about that as well.

They burnt down the whole palace and they laughed menacingly. The shadows of the dreams and memories they burnt alive walked all over the ruins, trying to hold on to the charred pieces of their body.

Emotions are messy.

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.