"My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor."

"I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing."

"I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment."

"I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

"God enters by a private door into every individual."

"The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that the most profound truths are found in silence."