Not by any means do I think that I'm The Rock or Mark Wahlberg. I understand that I'm not like them, being a leading guy, but I'm a great comedy sidekick, and, who knows, I can be in the X-Men or something.
In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City.
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.
We've been in the business of regional banking, and we understand what it is to make loans, and that's the engine of growth to small and medium sized business.
If we start to use social media data sets to take the pulse of a nation or understand a crisis - or actually use it to deploy resources - we are getting a skewed picture of what is happening.
Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.
It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.
I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.
More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.
We are not a fearful, small people. We are confident and strong, and we understand that much of our strength comes from the fact that we are a people of the planet.
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.
For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.
I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
