Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.
Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.
The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level.
I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if the director disagrees.
When I first came to L.A., I was plotting out my career choices as if I actually had a choice. Unless you're Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, impossibly good-looking, or look like a freak, you have to be malleable and open to everything that comes your way because that's what makes it possible to pay your mortgage and eat.
Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.
The way I make something out of nothing, I got that from my mama. That's 100% her.
All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.
I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way.
With manga, in my art style, I don't do much in the way of techniques to create depth. But even though I don't do depth techniques through my art, I am conscious of depth itself.
