TV always wants more people to be watching.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

There ain't nothin' that makes a man feel more alive than white-hot desire.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their cast or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.