I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what youre going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels its seems like Im looking out over a forest.

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Thank you Lord God for everything you have given me and continue to bless me with. Your goodness is greater than the love of friends and family because you blessed me with them. Help me follow your holy will.

Let's just say that I don't think our show has very much in common with the book any more.

I won't tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

In time of crisis people want to know that you care more than they care what you know

If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

We must never expect discretion in first love it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow it will choke you.

I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

Cities must be fun.

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.

When the flower blossoms the bee will come.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

Theres nothing like your mothers sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.