If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.

It would seem very silly to start a conversation with a common hedgehog. They are not at all like cats, who surely understand the human language.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.