I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Acting is happy agony.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

My success rate speaks for itself.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

I’m a fry lover.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won’t die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn’t have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.