I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

People tell me it's a sinTo know and feel too much within

Every happy memory created for a child is another treasure of a lifetime.

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all