Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

No actor in the world started off at the top.

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

Let your yes be yes and your no be no--you can always change your mind.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

In my mind, being overdressed is not a bad thing at all. What's the worst case scenario? That you are the best-dressed person in the room? Who cares!

I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.