Some people won, some people lost [the Grammys] but Taylor Swift gets to wake up as Taylor Swift so she's winning.

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

I play a lot of basketball.

I was raised by a single mother.

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

The best days in the life of any person are the days of joy

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."