What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

Everything I do, it's all about making every moment a quality, meaningful moment.

Do not just look, but you should also observe.

No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.