"My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee."

"I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man."

"Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living."

"And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm."

"I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious."

"My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify."

"The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind."

"A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."