"if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul."

“When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.”

“I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work.”

“I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.”

Source : "Paul Allen: He talks Trail Blazers, Microsoft, 'The Social Network'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. April 19, 2011.

“They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.”

“If marijuana kills all my brain cells, then how come I can still hear them all talking to me?”

“The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.”

“Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.”

“David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.”

Source : "Anthony Edwards on Zero Hour, ER, and being Top Gun's "Mr. Lefty Liberal Peace Lover"". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2013.