I have such a little face.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I just love getting dirty.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.