I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

If you really care about Charlotte, don't be afraid to tell her. Believe me, it will hurt her a lot more not hearing the words than it will hurt you to say them.

The gospel of the kingdom talks about principles of the kingdom.

Laws go where dollars please.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

If you have a happy friend, your happiness goes up fifteen times.

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

I'm worried about everything at all times.