Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Hollywood is full of guys who say one thing, and then do another.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.

As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.

Failure has a hacksaw to my anklesand right now there is nothingI want more than to learnhow to walk on my hands.

You were meant for me, Poppy. I can feel it in my fingertips when I touch you.

Good luck to you, " he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as if she was some kind of monster.Maybe she was.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea.

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

His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. (on Freddy Adu)

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.