I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.
I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an actor in a way that Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep do.
I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.
I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
You know, for myself, my personal journey has been a very fortunate one and I would say to people it's like the stars lined up and the skies opened up and the sun shined and I met the right people - was at the right time. And, most importantly, you know I love what I do.
I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances.
I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.
As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.
I'm a hard-working young man who believes in myself.
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
Every day, you try something new. So I just try to keep myself healthy physically and nutritionally.
I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
People will watch your film only if it's good. Another star's flop won't make your film a hit. So my race is with myself.
Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.
The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.
I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.
There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
