“I wouldn’t just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it.”

I love action-adventure-type films – mythical adventures like ‘Lord of the Rings’ or superhero films like ‘Batman.’

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

I’ve always loved dogs. I grew up with them and I love working with them. They’re really fun.

I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

When you’re young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.

It’s the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you.

The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .

I’m more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

It’s great when you meet a girl and three hours later you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?’

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

To always be respectful and polite to them, and to always lead with your heart.

You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

I’m very specific about scripts that I like. I don’t have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don’t have a chart that I’m following or anything like that. I’m very much playing it by ear.

You don’t know where you’re swimming to. Everything’s blurry.

I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up.

I can’t remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.

I have to display what I have seen to people.

My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

We really don’t have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.