“Even though college has been hard, I don’t want to give up.”

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we’re kind of at a standstill.

At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo – slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I’d say always be true to yourself.

Still, it’s tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I’m definitely one who has taken what people say to heart and let it eat away at me.

Mostly, nothing’s really changed. I’m still the dorky nerd that I always was.

For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I’m kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers – the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I’m a good person, I don’t need to do that anymore.

I think it’s so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

Don’t give up your power.

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin’ pocket books from old ladies I told him, “Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you’re dead broke”

And they stuck to their guns and fought for Sean Connery, and they were right to fight for Sean Connery. If it wasn’t for Sean Connery, we wouldn’t all be here. I was raised to fight for what I believed in, so I wasn’t going to give up.

When your family is with you, it is not the hardest part. The hardest part is not giving up! Sometimes you stop and see everything and you do not know if everything that you are doing is going to pay off. If you work hard, it is going to pay off.

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.

What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?

I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps