Quotes

I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids.

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.

I was rebellious.

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

You can't scale if you do it alone, you really need to work with others.

We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment.

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.

We have a lot to learn from everyone.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

I wasn't very good at school.

Love is love, even in its platonic, unromantic sense. Once you have that connection between two people, the only thing that gets in the way is circumstance, history, what each person has gone through.

I am brilliant at not doing paperwork. I could teach a degree in procrastination.