It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet.

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Drake went through my exhibition. I did meet him in Los Angeles, and he was in the spaces that I did do there, and has some images from that.

Maybe if we choose who we love more carefully we limit the possibility of getting hurt.

Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be happy with myself. I worry that if I can't be happy with myself, then nobody will ever be happy with me, and that just makes me even more paranoid. It's a cycle, insecurity, unconfidence, and diffidence, it's all a cycle and it's destroying me.

'Real Steel' was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild or now I have two. And I think that possibly theres some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.

Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality. This is true for all persons, whatever their sexual orientation.

Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they're telling you about that you've never seen, and you're agape. You just can't believe that things can happen like that - but it's just so direct.

I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.

The crickets gone we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.