In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.

A positive life can never come from a mind that dwells on repeated negative interpretations of its experiences.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

I am an atheist thank God!

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.