Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.

The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!"Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.