I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
You really have to have a voice, especially as a female. You've got to be strong-minded and really focus on what your goal is - you can't be all over the place.
I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul.
I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'
Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.
In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.
I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.
At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.
The worth of a person’s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this quality is defined by a single factor, which is only people’s human character.
The quality of the thought that a person has got inside and sought from outside is likely to decide the quality of the people that has been brought into his life.
There is no illuminating light as powerful as that a person has got inside to guide him or her through the darkness encircling outside.
The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.
The biggest problem occurs when i try to forget you are nights, cuz i ain't got control on my dreams...
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.
