I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

I also like to eat very much, so I like all different types of foods.

I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key.

I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

You should be thankful for the journey of life. You only make this journey once in your life time.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith.

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.

Winning, you can overlook so many things.

I'm a grounded person.

I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.

I have nothing to say to the nothing that has been said.

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.