"Once I became a cop. I dived into that career. I never wanted to be an LAPD officer because I thought 'LA is super dangerous, not the place I'd want to be a cop'. But as a boy of course I was into guns, cops and robbers, so that's why it was cool to me and thought 'Yeah I could do this job'."

“I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.”

“Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.”

Source : "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

“Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.”

“What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.”

“Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.”

Source : "Fine Dining with Mobile Devices" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2008.

“He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.”

“Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward.”

“Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.”

Source : James Huneker (1920). “Painted Veils”