Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon: I want to have my own world.

Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.

I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er.

I've always been a big fan of books.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

Everyone has the abbility to hurt. It's the choice that matters.

If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid.

Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.