"I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging."

“The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.”

“The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.”

Source : "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Press Conference, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

“I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.”

“In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.”

“I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.”

“Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”

“There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.”