The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

It’s not about what you said. It’s not about what you did. It’s not about what you love. It’s about them feeling bad about themselves.

I'm so fed up with being told that I'm a bad person because I don't subscribe to the same exact narrow views [Christians] have.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies.

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.