And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.

I'm here to make sense.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Education is a vacine for violence.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

I don't support violence, period.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.