Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

Everybody who comes from the gangster life they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.

Caste is not just a division of labour it is a division of labourers.

Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

I will never forget the debt we owe to those who have fought to keep America safe.

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

We come not to mourn our dead soldiers but to praise them.

I grew up in Madras and did my schooling at St. Bedes and college at Loyola.

I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

You have to support the government, not to me personally; I do not want anyone cultivating loyalty to me. I don't like that.

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

Even when you lose, you get better. Sometimes when you lose, you win.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

The narrow path that 'Uncommon' people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.

I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.

Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you're an obscure judge whose name ID hovers between infinitesimal and zilch, it's political malpractice to neglect social media. I'm probably the tweetingest judge in America, which, admittedly, is like being the tallest Munchkin in Oz.

I'm not a waif-y girl and never will be. I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.