It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

I make my relationships at work.

I have fun at work.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I only eat things that you don't have to kill.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

My face is my career.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.

The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support.

London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I moved my studio to Palm Springs 'cause I don't like the idea of going to a studio every day like a job... I need to make a personal record, so I need to be in a house... I don't want to be in a studio where people can hear the music 'cause I don't know what it is yet.

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

In the press, it has been said that I ran a foreclosure machine.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.