Tell the truth - or at least, don't lie.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Make friends with people who want the best for you.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

A fantastic positive ATTITUDE makes a great day! SMILE!

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

If we allow our definition of what's possible to be based on how big someone else can dream, our dream will die.

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Violet is my everything. She's the sweetest little girl in the whole world. She inspires me. I'm glad that we have such a close relationship because she makes me laugh and shows me how great life can be every day.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

Maybe the wolf was in love with the moon and each month they cried out for a love it would never touch.

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in 'Weeds.' My manager says, 'you have to grow into yourself, Allison' because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more.

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating.

I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.