We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

Infuse your life with action.

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

Every moment you are separated from love it makes it so much harder to remember why a heart was shared

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

The way we live, decides the meaning of life.And the way we die, tells how much meaningful we made it.

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.

I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50.