"The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready."

“I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

“But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.”

Source : "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

“Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.”

“I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity."”

“Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?”

“Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.”

“It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality.”

“Everybody's funny if you love them.”

Source : "Anna Torv Is a Woman We Love" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 8, 2010.