A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

Others are responsible for their actions toward you, but you are responsible for your reactions. Always be considerate and kind with your actions.

Help people.Be interested.Make a difference.Live passionately.Go comando.

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.