I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp happy Travie.

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise willpower, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind.

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

Most people think I'm from New York or something. I was, like, 70 pounds heavier than what I am, and I didn't get no girls... I was definitely more on the deep fried crab than I was on the baked chicken side.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.

Learn to obey before you command.

Moana doesn't have a love interest because this movie is about a journey - a physical one across hundreds and hundreds of miles of ocean, but also an emotional one of Moana finding herself. She doesn't need a man or love interest to find herself.

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do.