Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people.

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

I don't really need new stuff anyway. I like to make big stuff, and it's too expensive to travel with. So I have my refined set that works well, and I'm pretty much set with that.