If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

Spontaneity is the province of youth

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.