Your American fairytales end that way.  Real fairytales end in blood or tears.

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

You can become just as hooked on sugar as on drugs, tobacco or alcohol. The sugar affects the same areas in your brain.

If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

I'm very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.