“Obviously I’m not there to pick up anybody, but I’m not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.”

It’s something that I don’t want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don’t feel like being noticed.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness.

They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things.

Or maybe we’re all self-conscious to an extent.

It’s not like I crave attention all the time.

I bet they didn’t tell you that was in the gift bag.

I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.

It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.

It’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense.

And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,

Something that I’ve always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone’s character.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

Learned how to survive without anything.

It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.

My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.

If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody’s civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.