I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

The Brazilians are amazing in their nature. You cannot describe it; you must feel that warmth when you're around them to understand.

I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.

Oh, I love Rock to death, man. He doesn't inspire me as an actor but, I mean, come on.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we have destroyed our own brotherhood.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

I'm completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels.

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

What people say what people do and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.