I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look scared, I don't know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you're actually doing some of the stunts, then it's not so hard at all, because there's an actual fear there.

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers? Or, 'I have 140,000 friends on Facebook.' What does that even mean? I find it to be a waste of time.

I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves - the misfits.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.

'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.

My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they're incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward.

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

A man is only as faithful as his options.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.

Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.