So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

You've come to me now at this point in time, when The Neptunes are just now getting our light.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now.

In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too

Simplifying the tax code and reducing administrative burdens will save small businesses money and time and let owners and employees focus less on paperwork and more on how to operate in this tough economy.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it

Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.

I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.

When I decide to do something, I do it.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God cant help but smile on it.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

What a gloomy thing not to know the address of ones soul.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.