It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

Tension is the Mirror of our Past.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead.

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual