I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups

I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

Amazing Love! how can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

If they offer giving you a willpower or a thousand ways, choose the willpower, because with it, you can create a million ways!

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.