“Seeing my face on a poster is surreal. You look at it and it’s not quite like you, if you know what I mean… it’s almost a third person kind of thing. I still find it strange.”

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don’t conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn’t change that for anybody.

The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade – whatever you want to call it!

I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a clique.

My philosophy with my career is mostly to just mix it up with a little bit of everything in moderation. And that’s what makes my job so great.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

I don’t have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don’t have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

Don’t worry about everything and really enjoy the moment.

Is that I get to constantly do different things, put on different hats, be different people, and mixing up the genre really lends itself to that.

Whether it’s teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There’s something really cool about that.

Whereas if you have the chance to create and produce your next movie that keeps you busier, it gives you more options and hopefully enables you to make the type of movies you’re passionate about.

In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something.

I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.

The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy – whether it’s going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other – those always make the most memorable dates!

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.

When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you

Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet

Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.

Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.

That’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing: if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?

Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.