It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

I'm looking for men who can give me security.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.

Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.