“We can not be naive and think we can go it alone.”

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 enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, ’cause it’s a nice balance to the weightlifting.

The problem to me with environmentalism is the idea that we’re all gonna die and we need to save ourselves.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much – then they get used to it.

I’m a filmmaker, I’m a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate?

I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general.

It’s what we live for, to be able to make great illusions.

Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they’re designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

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

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz,

What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.

We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’

It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.

I’m not really a big X’s and O’s guy, but if you want to go there, I’m more of a space-the-floor type of coach:

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.

A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

I’m ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I’m one and Tim Duncan is the other.