As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes, but it's about trying to do the right thing.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

There are only two people in your life, they will either give you a negative feeling, or a warm feeling, when you think of them.

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Corporate newspeak leads to corporate nothink.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.