You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

If I am a great man then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.