My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.

It had been horrible, yes, and he'd never want to do it again - but it truly was his most powerful experience.

I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.

...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Luck is not a business model.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.

I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language