I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix.

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative, regarded it as a legacy that had to be built on rather than rejected.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.

I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what's around the next bend. And isn't that, in the end, what drives us?

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

I'd love to be the Ali of women's boxing, to retire as the greatest.