It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

I provide a little comic relief.

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

I try my hardest to do what I have to do to make my team win.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.