Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

There is a worry about a bomb being implanted in a human being and placed on an airplane. So, I think there is a lot to worry about.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.