Quotes

I knew what I wanted to do with my life: I wanted to fight.

The people around me saved my life, not MMA. It was people who said, 'You're better than this,' who told me, 'You don't belong in this world.' MMA and jiu-jitsu and training gave me an escape.

If we have more confidence in ourselves, we can live a happier life and a better life.

My whole life, I thought I sucked. And then I get in here, and I grapple other people, and I'm like, 'I'm actually good.'

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

I hadn't planned on being on TV. It wasn't something I had planned my whole life.

'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.

In 1984, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to serve as a legislative intern in his office in Washington, D.C. Coming from humble beginnings, the experience changed my life and charted me on a path of public service.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing spots. And so it's gone from an issue that only environmentalists cared about to an issue that almost everybody in the state of Hawaii cares about, because it's really affecting our quality of life.

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

I know I'm big. I've been big my whole life. I've never had to prove how tough I am.

I see every project I take on as significant, and I try to pour a lifetime of experience into it.

I never covered Barack Obama watching ESPN at night, because he wasn't making life or death choices based on the basketball games.

When Trump lifers are calling for troops in the streets because they lost an election, that's radicalization. When they start speculating about breaking off and creating their own country, that is radicalization. All of this election denialism talk is radical. And yet, it is infesting the airwaves. It's everywhere in the pro-Trump media.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.

You lose more than you win in life, and that's OK. That's the nature of life.

Through most of my life, music has been like a radio that plays and plays in my head.

When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.

I have been fortunate in my career to play a lot of lead roles. The downside to that is I don't have a life outside of the show. I go on lockdown even with my wife if the show is really difficult and I am having vocal problems.

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.

When you're Shredder for Halloween as a kid, and now you get to play him, it's like a childhood dream come to life.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.