I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

I love the smell of fried chicken.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

You can never lead unless you follow.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning.

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.