Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

I play a lot of basketball.

I was raised by a single mother.

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

In the Christian Story, mind and matter - invisible things and visible things - are both real. The Christian view is not the only way of viewing the world, of course. It has competition.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

I will not let anyone into America that I think poses a risk to us.

I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.