Running and reading are the keys of life.
You don’t set out to build a wall. You don't say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.
Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people’s lives brighter. You just shake somebody’s hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.
Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you’re going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.
Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.
I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else’s life lighter, brighter, or better.
You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.
Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don’t leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.
Greatness lives on the edge of destruction.
The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.
You can’t break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don’t take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.
I believe that my connection to my higher power, is separate from everybody else’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers and I don’t believe the Christians or the Jews have all the answers.
Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.
Boys laugh at what they put girls through, but they won’t be laughing when they’re wiping tears off their daughter’s face for the same reason.
I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.
My God, my higher power, it’s mine and mine alone. I create my connection, and I decide what my connection is going to be.