You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.

If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really small will have a really large effect.

In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.

I wouldn't say personally that I have problems communicating with men - though I'm not sure what the men would say.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

I really like going to see movies. I know that's super boring but it's true!

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

Peace doesn’t deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.