"When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back."

“A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.”

“I either run or try to play basketball every day.”

Source : "A Scrubbed Toe in the Race". Interview with Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2010.

“If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed were to bump into each other along the road and go have a cup of tea or whatever, I think we all know they would treat one another far different and far better than a lot of their followers would.”

“Singing is a ***** blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the time on stage, I do!”

“When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.”

Source : Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.261, Vintage

“If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.”

“I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.”

Source : "When Francisco Met Bianca". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 18, 2011.

“There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.”

Source : Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions