I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

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

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.