"It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us."

"I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now."

"My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?"

"You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory."

"I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"It is a unyielding truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."