I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

This was just one of many times God has spared me.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

Nurturing is not complex. Its simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.

Radio is in my blood.

When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air.

Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words we choose what and how we believe and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen or not.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another too often ending in the loss of both.

Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

The key here is that we're not going to beat them on commercials: They're always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.

That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.

In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel.

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.