"Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played."

"I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now."

"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."

"If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath."

"It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky."

"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."

"Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block."

"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."