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.

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

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

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.

It’s not going to be easy, but it’s kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.

Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Find the pattern and anticipate them!

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.