I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

The logic of the heart is absurd.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.