I clung to my vegan friends for more support than anyone because they helped guide me and made the transition much easier. My family was a bit skeptical, as they felt like I wasn't getting enough protein in my vegan diet.

One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless.

I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food and your sneakers - not me.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song.

I'm literally obsessed with Christmas, and it's been my dream ever since I was a little girl to make a Christmas album.

My Barbie doll is definitely a reflection of me and my personality. My doll is so detailed, she even has my same beauty marks.

The four of us are really in sync with each other. We're pretty open about most things. We try to respect each other as much as we can. For us, communication is really important.

'Ebony' is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers.

It was the Cosby family on the cover, but overlaid on that, it appeared to be a shattered glass. So it really wasn't just about the shattering of the Huxtables: it was really a shattering of the black family. And it was a question about that and where do we stand on that.

Fairness and equality means that what you are never limits who you can be. It means that a young African-American man like my father can start a business with $500 and a dream. It means that a young African-American woman like my mother can walk into European fashion houses with her head held high and be treated with respect.

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it.

If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.