I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.

Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking for speaking's sake. Could there be a more despicable use for words?

That's rather a broad idea, " I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, " he answered.

He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.