I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.

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.

Don’t do business just for the money. Make it a hobby and the money will come automatically.

Sometimes it helps to swim to the other side of our understanding just to make sure all is well

An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance.

Life demands discipline in order to succeed in it.

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

She never was really charming till she died.