Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn't with all the layers... I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says 'open here.' Is that sarcasm?

I love Snooki. She's a pickle sucker!

A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.