I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!
Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.
Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.
On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.
I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.
I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.
Jewish vampires: Crosses & holy water won’t hurt me whatcha gonna try next?
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can.
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.
Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.
You never know until you try. And even if the results are not satisfactory, at least you know you've tried.
