Quotes

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.

There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.

It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

I have a very clear picture of what I want to do and what I feel is important as far as my contribution or my appreciation and respect for this life that we're living, and to try to make it better. I can't feel that I'm making it better playing commercial music, and I never could, and I never will.

I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.

That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

I was against getting Beats cause I know they're kind of really popular and you know, hey're such a well known brand. But, I ended up buying them and they have changed my life, and the best thing about these is the battery life.

When something steps in from the work you are doing and breaks into your personal life... you feel kind of vulnerable.

When you're a young actor, you're expected to live a transient life.

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.