Because I've always had a strong personality, I've always thought I knew what was best.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

I was Persian-American, but I hated bringing Persian food to school. I just didn't want to stand out in that way. I wanted to be like everybody else.

I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller.

I'm a corporate thug. That's the best way to be.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Having the name 'Bloomberg' doesn't help me in any way... and it really is a disadvantage and takes away from the image I'm trying to portray.

Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.

I always was the quiet type, never said that much.

I think there just needs to be an emotional attachment to the surfer, however you get that, so that, when you watch the surfing, you can relate to that person, or you're rooting for them, in a way.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Just because you're sitting at a poker table with some guy doesn't give him the right to say whatever the hell he wants about the way you live your life.