I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.