When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Personally, I love Toronto.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it.

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.