“I think going through ‘Hairspray’ and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.”

You don’t really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.

I’m not getting married until I’m forty. If ever.

I’m a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I’m not a shy person.I like conversations and I’m a really big sucker for personality.

I’ve always been taught to try and look my best and that’s probably my main influence, I’m not looking to influence fashion anymore than the next guy, but I do try and look my best when I’m out and representing my movies.

I’d love to take a year off and travel the world under the radar. I would love to do it really low key. I wouldn’t need to stay in fancy hotels or anything; I just want to explore – but I don’t know how I’d do it. Would I shave my head to try and go incognito? Ha ha! I’m not telling.

Things happen differently when you’re actually here, so you can’t put out a general guideline that’s gonna show up in text and be interpreted. There are no rules. Just be yourself.

A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.

I don’t think there are any rules in real face-to-face relationships or interactions.

In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow – and at this point I think the odds are against me…

I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.

I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that’s the first thing I look for.

The one you actually get to do when you’re filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.

Sometimes you grow out of love.

There’s no point in being scared of just trying.

Certain things just happen and it’s undeniable, you just go that way. But I don’t have a specific path I’m following, I’m just playing it by ear.

Whether it’s going out and auditioning for the play or trying out for the basketball team, you have to explore your boundaries and see where you really want to go and the only way you can do that is to break out of your shell.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.

He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.