The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty

If the trip was sanctioned by the president, it would be defeated before we leave.

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.