It's always challenging to go into a role.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.

No, I was going to college and got discovered.

Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

It's always challenging to go into a role.

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I love 'Top Chef.'

If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.

Death comes to us all we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

I'm the only one in my family who doesn't cook, but I can do a Swiss dish called frittatensuppe. You make a thin omelet from eggs, flour and parsley, then roll and cut it in the shape of tagliatelle and add broth. It's a tradition we adopted.

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains and feeds her grief.

I want my clients to trust me.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.

I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.

It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can't see, you know, bone loss. Our cells, you know, that's something that we'll have to notice with imaging technology when I get back.

There is no limit to what astrophysicists can do. We can be very curious.

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.