When Im not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that Im not allowed to do that.

You push the limits and you find out where the limits are.

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

Whatever mind can concieved and believe can be achieves

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.