I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

I have to wear six pairs of speedos when I run.

I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.

There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit.

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.

Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

If it feels right in your gut, this is who you are, this is what you do, this is what you feel, then don't hide that. You just stick to it and the world will catch up.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.