I think each role has had different challenges.

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

I think each role has had different challenges.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words or in exact and priggish argument.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Unless you live alone in a cave or hermitage cooking and eating are social activities even hermit monks have one communal meal a month. The sharing of food is the basis of social life and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.