I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

You know, you're a great barbecuetionist.

Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ.

How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.