Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."

"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."

"Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance."

"I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door." ( A Boy in France : Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, March 31, 1945)"

"I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though."

"Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away."

"If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable."

"I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((())))."

"That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think."

"If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically."

"It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world."

"It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."

"Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will."

"Who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody."

"You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world."

"She was not one for emptying her face of expression."

"But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes."

"I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it."

"This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat."