It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.

Normally when you're promoting something a lot, sometimes you get tired.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I've always been pretty happy with my style. I've been wearing tapered jeans since 1980 something.

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.