There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.

I told Clooney, George, you’re worth $100 million — of course you can afford to be a socialist!

I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing...and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it.

In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.

I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

I've always said even the most hardened pro-choice people would be just devastated to watch an actual birth and then watch a baby be killed before their eyes.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

I'm not going to let other people set my limitations.

There are so many negative things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

There are some debts that can't be paid with money.

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you.