Who Said It: Ashley Greene Or David Foster Wallace?

A. "I think that we've all gone through having to make the transition from adolescence to adulthood and we've all kind of gone through loss and love and hurt and kind of having to grow up and let go of the past and adapt to the future."

B. "And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self."

C. "I actually really appreciated that because we'd butt heads and then we'd come to an understanding and go from there. I think that we actually learned some things about ourselves and our characters in the process, but he's still a very close friend of mine and it was a really positive thing."

D. "One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."

E. "But for some reason I didn't feel like I needed to watch those films to kind of grasp the things that we were trying to capture with the film because I think the themes are so universal and I think the themes are something that are undying and everyone is always going to go through for the rest of time. So I didn't really think that I had to do so much research to kind of capture those things."

F. "I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."

G. "We're all—especially those of us who are educated and have read a lot and have watched TV critically—in a very self-conscious and sort of worldly and sophisticated time, but also a time when we seem terribly afraid of other people's reactions to us and very desperate to control how people interpret us. Everyone is extremely conscious of manipulating how they come off in the media; they want to structure what they say so that the reader or audience will interpret it in the way that is most favorable to them."

H. "There's always going to be anti in this industry. There will always be people who love me or hate me. That’s why I try to focus on the positive."

I. "I think you definitely had a sense of a little bit of a depression. We actually didn't really address the subject a lot and talk about it a lot, but you definitely see it I think in the Wheeler family and with Skateland closing. But, yeah, it really wasn't something that we touched on."

J. "The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror."

K. "I think I've learned that I will always continue to keep learning about myself and everyone is always changing. It's so funny, I still have the same morals and values and I think foundation of who I was growing up, when I was in Jacksonville, Florida, but it's just so funny to me that I'm such a different person than I was from seventeen to twenty one and from twenty one to twenty four. And I'm sure from twenty four to twenty nine I'll be completely different because you live and you learn and experiences affect you. I think you kind of grow as a person."

L. "If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down."

M. "I don't know that I'll go to a campus. I could take online courses, but I think that I'm never going to want to stop learning and growing. The funny thing about this profession is that virtually anything you learn and any experience that you go through you can use in this profession. So I was very interested in law and I was very interested in psychology when I was in school. I actually had a magnet program high school for that. So I think that psychology is still something that I'm very interested in learning about."

N. "And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out."

O. "When I see the merchandise, it’s exciting. To be able to say I have a doll is pretty amazing. I have an action figure. That’s awesome!"

P. "An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair."

Q. "It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out."

R. "I'm a workaholic. When I feel like I’m not doing something, it drives me insane."

S. "There are things that can be learned, it is a craft. You have to have some talent and be a certain type of person to deal with it, but it takes a certain type of personality. You gotta love it, dealing with being bashed in the public and not having a private life, it’s not worth the trade if you don’t love it. If you do love it, it’s totally worth it."

T. "What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings."

U. "Of course you're a fraud, of course what people see is never you. And of course you know this, and of course you try to manage what part they see if you know it's only a part. Who wouldn't? It's called free will, Sherlock. But at the same time it's why it feels so good to break down and cry in front of others, or to laugh, or speak in tongues, or chant in Bengali--it's not English anymore, it's not getting squeezed through any hole. So cry all you want, I won't tell anybody."

V. "Yes. Oh, yes. Fans shake and cry. You kind of don’t know what to do. I give them a hug or whatever. People ask if I get annoyed, but you can’t really get annoyed at something like that."

W. "I think probably through the chaos of it all is you really have to stay grounded and remember who you are and where you came from, because that’s a really big thing."

X. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

Y. "I will look at it the way that I want to, even if it’s not true. I’m an actor."

Z. "And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.'"