I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

I will always have a stutter.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

Told you I was going to mess up your make up," he said, a smug grin on his face.

With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.