“It is so strange – if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.”

Don’t know when my passion became my purpose and then turned into my profession.

Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I’m running with myself

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

I’m try-sexual. I try anything that’s sexual.

When people call me God, I say, no, I’m still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I thank God for happiness and sadness. If you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is.

The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.

As an actor you’re only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don’t like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money. An actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You’ll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep is the struggle of life.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don’t want big cars, I don’t want big hotel rooms.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband. A toy and a diamond always works.

You can love me or hate me but you can’t ignore me.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

It’s easy to be ignorant but it’s very intricate to be aware.

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love.

As secretary of state it’s been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much – I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of.

You don’t bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The more one does the more one can do.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.