Quotes About Discovery

Liverpool followed me for a long time. When I arrived in the offices there, they showed me cassettes of me in the Under-15s. Everyone knew me. I couldn't believe it.

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oftentimes, I'll be looking through my closet and I realize I'll have something that was new or something I didn't realize I had.

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know exists.

I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'

The fact that I didn't believe in God was something that I just didn't consider. And then when I did, it was like, 'Oh yeah, I'm out.'

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

I think it was like, 'I don't look like you, Mom. I don't look like you, Dad. Like, what's going on here?' They just kind of told me I was adopted. I was like, 'OK, that's fine with me.'

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

Sometimes it's okay for careers to find you.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

I love, love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love.