There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

If you are too big to be impacted by your local church, then maybe you are to small to impact the world.

Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul,

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She had her prom at Cannes.

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.