Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

Life is sweetest when it could go away tomorrow.

I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.

You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.

I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.