Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever bombed anything? Have you ever murdered anyone? Have you ever kidnapped anyone?

It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.