I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for Ray, I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I wanted to stand on the kind of holy ground that wasn't curated by church professionals, where a burning bush could blaze forth in defiance of safety regulations and outside of regular office hours.

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before.

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.