I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

People are flawed. I like peaking into their flaws. The way to humanize them is not to play them in any general way, but to make them very specific. If you make them specific, they have hopes and dreams and loves and vulnerabilities and quirks and you get to know them and you get to appreciate them.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at.