The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

It can always get worse.

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.

Even at your best, someone will have something negative to say. Pursue Greatness anyways!

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

The early bird catches the worm.