Watch your posture whenever you walk through a doorway. Hold your head high, your shoulders back, and your torso out. This will convey confidence and command respect.

Smile big at the right time. Women who were slower to smile in the corporate world are perceived as more credible.

The flooding smile: when meeting someone, don’t smile right away. Pause for a moment, then let a big flooding smile go over your mouth and eyes. This will give them the impression that the smile is more genuine

Use your eyes–strong eye contact gives the impression of respect and affection. It also gives the impression of being an abstract thinker.

The sticky eyes technique: hold your gaze as much as possible. When talking about personal matters with another men, hold your gaze a little less.

The epoxy see eyes technique: hold gaze on the subject even when another party is speaking. Conveys intense confidence and interest in the subject. Use with caution.

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I don't believe in eating throughout the day. I eat every four hours.

I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you don't believe any of these characters care for each other. I used to fight with my friends who wrote on 'Seinfeld,' because they had such great pride in saying it was a show about nothing.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I mean, some of them are great, most of them are filler.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

Not to say you should let your physicality define you, but there are some things that can make people feel really insecure. So, if there is something you want to fix that allows you to feel a little bit more confident, I support it.

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

It seems everyone's so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.