You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.

You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.

About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?

I would love to win a slam by the end of my career, and I would love to achieve other things. It's just that I am not a patient guy. When I want something, I try to get it as quickly as I can.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when its be brave or else be killed.

When you hear that you're going to be working with a first-time director, sometimes that can be a concern to people.