Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

It is only the Creator that can set thy soul free from every struggle.

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

I knew I was going to be a journalist, and that was it.. full stop.

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.