The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.

My future's about trying to be a better man

There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free.

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.

All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.