“Happiness doesn’t come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.”

I don’t think it’s necessarily the right way to go about it, because I think we need to really just improve our every moment and improve our quality of life.

I’ve always been a very rebellious, philosophical person.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Music is a language of emotion.

We go to the real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It’s a perfect marriage between fact and fiction.

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling.

It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

That’s what we do on ‘Entourage.’ We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments.

I’m sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

So we all have to bring to the table our own effort or our own passion in whatever way that manifests itself.

I truly believe that empathy is the key to solving the majority of our environmental and social problems.

Helping our planet is not a one-person or one-country job.

I think anybody who’s famous has to deal with their fame in their own way.

So my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people.

I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard. I regained my breath. “boys take not everywhere: that was a kiss.

if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.

On a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down.

I failed so many times and got back up. I got through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.