If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.