Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

My inspiration is my hometown.

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind...

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let alone with an entire family. I do not want to make movies for the rich.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

I started acting when I was 5, and it was always a part of my life. My life and acting weren't separate things; they were always one.

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.