Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Everything becomes yours when you touch it with your love. You are connected to everything with your feelings.

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.