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“Depression is not interesting to watch.”
“Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.”
“You must lose everything in order to gain anything.”
“I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.”
“Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.”
“I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.”
“I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.”
“There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.”
“When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.”
“Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.”
“I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.”
“This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.”
“Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.”
“I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.”
“You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.”
“I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.”
“When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.”
“The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.”
“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.”
“What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.”