I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

The more you practive overcoming your obstacles, the more you will welcome them & be unafraid.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

When you're the conscious captain in your kitchen, you'll feel better mentally and physically.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets.

I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

I'm truly glad there are so many options on television that are for grown and thinking people.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

After becoming famous, I've realised how overrated fame is. It gets in the way of normal life.

I can't dumb down for the audience because I believe my audience is at least as smart as I am.

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.

I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won't matter and people who matter won't mind it

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.

At home, we never used to perform pujas every day. But God has always been there in the hearts.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

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