Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

Teamwork is working together " even when apart.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.

I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer I think it must be this its meant to improve us.

I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.

When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.

The further you get away from yourself the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

I'm not one of those pop guys. That's for wimps like Vanilla Ice.

I like kissing people because it's funny.