I play a lot of basketball.

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 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.

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel.

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?