I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.

I'm a believer in The Word, which says "God moves mountains."

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.