“Transformation excites me. So does truth. Nothing is more thrilling, hilarious, and tragic than the truth. Those things motivated me to become an actor. Also, they always have the best food on set.”

After you have a big game, you can’t just say, ‘That’s it, I’ve arrived,’ by any means. I’m always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that’s important.

Sometimes you get lucky – you don’t put much work in and you’re successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it’s about the quality of the time you put in.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

You know when grandparents get older and they can’t do things for themselves anymore? I’m gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.

I’m thankful for some of bad experiences I’ve had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we’re winning a different way every time. It’s a great feeling.

When I was younger, I was just always looking for – you’re always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl.

College. I didn’t even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.

It’s cool to actually have my own trading card.

Some of the best competition there’s been since I’ve been in the league. Just every night, night in and night out we get to play against the top guys, the top teams. It’s a lot of fun.

I’m not a huge fan of plastic surgery, for either guys or girls.

Take care of your body from the inside out.

The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!

Getting to play with my brother was an unreal experience at Oklahoma, in college, it’s some of the funnest times I’ve had in basketball, and I’ll cherish those memories forever.

People can’t measure the amount of heart you have and how much you’re willing to fight for something.

I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him.

How fortunate we are to be able to see that. If he stays healthy and motivated – and the wonderful feel he has stays with him – he is the kind of guy who can overtake the greatest.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.