There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

You never see girls running after engineers.

If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one

Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor

Let go of yesterday, you made it! Don't use yesterday's state of mind to make today's decisions.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel.

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.