All India radio was worldwide.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

All India radio was worldwide.

There's got to be something greater than us.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I hear music as narrative.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

It is important to keep you head up and follow what you believe is right.

We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American.

You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.

In truth wilderness is a state of mind and heart. Very little exists now in actuality.

I auditioned for quite a lot of films. I do not wish to name the films I auditioned for. There were times when I knew I would not be fit for this film, or I would not get this film. Still, I used to audition for it just to get experience... to practice.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.

No. I didn't look at the last few scripts. I didn't want to read them because I'm a 'Breaking Bad' fan. I wanted to experience it with everyone.

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

A father is someone who is proud to see you get your first car but secretly wishes it had no keys.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.