You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I can dance to just about anything.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Children always turn to the light.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.