"The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place."

“I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, Ill get to pursue them.”

“Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.”

“It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.”

“Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.”

“Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.”

“Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.”

Source : Interview for Live magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, December 5, 2010.

“I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened." That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.”

“Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.”

Source : "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.