Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.

Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.