Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Know yourself better and love yourself unconditionally, and stop miserably and desperately waiting for a 'special someone' to come into your life and fill up the emptiness in your heart.

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

Access to high quality video content -- essentially TV programming -- has never been better than today

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

We have two kids, my wife and myself.