"Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound"

“That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.”

“And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.”

“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.”

“The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?”

“What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.”

“The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.”

“I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.”

Source : "Teen Talks To: Audrina Patridge". Seventeen interview, www.seventeen.com. May 8, 2008.

“The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.”