I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I just think that the gifts that God has given me and the attention that I have, I just don't feel like acting is the limit of it. I just feel like there's so much more that I could do...And, you know, every day I wake up and I try to do a little more and I just want the world to be different and better because I was here.

I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.