A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

I am a hopeless romantic and so is my wife.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?

The end of pain we take as happiness.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.