He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

I think I have just evolved as a person, as a human being. I like fitness. It's an important part of my everyday life, and I enjoy and endorse a healthy lifestyle.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

You can't follow another actor's performance. You can't be Robert DeNiro, because you're not Robert DeNiro, and, you know, he is.

Never believe that a few caring people cant change the world. For indeed thats all who ever have.

Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.