I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.