I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes, but it's about trying to do the right thing.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

It is better to pray with a pure heart before the family altar than to perform gaudy ceremonies in a pagoda, clad in the robes of an unworthy bonze.

The most magical thing I have come across is a beautiful face with a beautiful heart and it's you❤ ❤

If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.

What is wrong with you people?

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

I don't think I'd call [mood] a major force, but it is important as far as hitting the right notes or nuances with a character or scene.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.