I was freezing in that loincloth.

I was freezing in that loincloth.

I didn't want to be an actor.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our hearts are connected.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be.

The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

Comedy is basically self-deprecation.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

Two souls with but a single thought Two hearts that beat as one.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.