There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

I trained myself to be organized.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.