I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I keep everything that's private private.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun, I love changing up my hair.

That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.

I mean you ACRES of harm, ' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals

Fine, just don’t eat my mom, okay? She’s had a bad enough life without becoming the Bride of Dracula.” – Nick