When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.

Change takes courage.

I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

I do weight training and follow strict diet. It is very important to look a certain way. I don't think being extra skinny and thin is desirable, but you have to be fit.

I'm a full-time dad; I'm a part-time actor.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

I've been trying face products since I was, like 13, 12 years old. I use to break out a lot, especially in my teen years.

Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.