I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Being in love is not cool!

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.

Personally, I like films that make me a little bit uncomfortable because I think you're uncomfortable when something is real.

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.

Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.

Everything that happens in our life expands us and makes us more than we were before, including our ability to be happy and joyful.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.