The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.