I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.

Talking of love is making it.