I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

I love great animation.

It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

Winning the world to Christ means winning individuals.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.