I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

I stayed, to love you.I left, to love myself.

There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.

Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.

Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself

You can’t expect to be who God wanted you to be if you don’t improve on upon your talents, abilities, and actions to the peak of the potentials you carry.

Not even need and love can defeat fate...

I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly, ' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats.