Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented.

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy.

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

Ones dignity may be assaulted vandalized and cruelly mocked but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

I thought that plastic surgery was easy, but it is really serious and is not something you want to mess around with.

I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.

When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be then maturity is letting go again.

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

For years, people have re-dialed when the line was busy. They waited their turn. When I'm put on hold, I always hope that as my revenge, their other call will be someone wanting to sell them something.

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.

The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?