I basically was a precocious little kid.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

I want to make smart television.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

Good things dont come to those who wait. Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in.. Happy monday

Defending human rights requires vigilance, doggedness and a strong, global force for good.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

Clarity affords focus.

Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

In many... cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you're seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you're seeing all-out war.

Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.

Care and affection is not a business where you give and you get. It is a beautiful feeling for someone where you like to give even if you dont get.

Mysteries always have the potential for interesting connections between the elements. I'm also most interested in the relationship between the characters. As in 'Masterpiece,' I'm trying to create characters who not only are solving a mystery but are solving the riddle of their own personal relationships.

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

On some sets, if a helicopter goes by, what would normally happen is that somebody would go, 'There's a helicopter. Stop.' I'd never stop for a helicopter. I am always trying to make sure that the machine is in service to the actors.

A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.

I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.