When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

You can't not love animals, I can't not. It doesn't matter what the animal is.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

The technical aspects of doing motion capture and actually, you know, capturing the motion, is very different. It's an interesting learning curve to be part of because you have so much gear on you.

That is the beauty of reading a meaningful quote. Just as it is with the spirit of our hearts, sometimes we must feed the doves in order to hear them sing.

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

At little more than kin and less than kind.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.