I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

I'm a nudist at heart.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

You can be childlike without being childish.

I don't think I could live with anybody. I had roommates, and it's not for me. I like my space!

In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

you have to love something before you can hate it.

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.