I don't really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids.

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

I play a lot of basketball.

I was raised by a single mother.

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God’s will.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

You only know you love her when you let her go.

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.