There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.