Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.
Well, it’s the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.
People will always blame the poets for society’s ills. But these are the true artists.
You can’t jump to vegan if you’re not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.
You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
I’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn’t a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind.
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
Never change for the mainstream – stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it’s the cycle of giving and getting.
Service is the key to everything in life.