Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen.

You never see girls running after engineers.

If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

I see that you are heartlessly clever.For you know how to Love, but not Forever. You still return to me in flashes, so strong it clouds my Mind.The fire has turned to ashes, and yet, you’re not behind.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.