I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I don’t do meetings.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.