No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

I will always have a stutter.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

The true fate of tomorrow lies on what you make of today.

Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair

The journey is the destination. That's what you have to tell people.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

To the confusion of our enemies.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.