I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian life.

The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.