My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.