Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

I love what I do. I'm so lucky.

The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.