Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

Sometimes kindness doesn’t beget anything but misery. My mother didn’t have to learn that until she was in her thirties

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.