Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

We all know that there is a reward for every labour as well as there is a reward for every game played and won. How committed you are in life determines your reward.

the paradox of human ignorance is the most intriguing paradox of nature

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.

Death is the last limit of all things.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.