Born on December 21st

"As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies."

"I love '80s horror."

"I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being."

"To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living."

"A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that."

"To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor."

"In the field of mindfulness & peace, be present in this breath, for it is the only moment where life is actually happening."

"Peace is not the silence of the storm, but the calm center you maintain within yourself. As a creative innovator, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Let go of the weight of yesterday, and receive the clear canvas of this present day."

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"Never complain and never explain."

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

"As for our majority... one is enough."

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy."

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret."

"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."

"There is no education like adversity."

"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."