"I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated."

“Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world ...”

Source : Colin Thubron (2009). “Shadow of the Silk Road”, p.2, Harper Collins

“I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? So in speaking to our football team earlier in the year, I said, 'Why not us? Why can't we be there?'”

“What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.”

“Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks, they talk about what's wrong with America. Well, he's an athlete who is also saying something is wrong with America. Why is it that when he talks, people say, 'How can he talk about oppression and make millions?' Well, Trump is talking about it. Hillary Clinton is talking about it. And they have more money than most athletes.”

“Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing”

“You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.”

Source : "Helen Mirren: 'I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.