I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.

But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

The world needs some help.

You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he's excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

TV is definitely easier hours.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.