Joe Quotes

If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

I'm determined that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

If you're wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.

I strongly believe the DREAM Act should require the completion of a degree.

I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.

You should really get some quotes about our show. Noah loves when people talk about him. Negatively or positively.

The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.

I definitely talk about stuff I watch, but it's longer-form stuff.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.

The reason I couldn't pay my rent was because I was one of the worst drinkers you'd ever seen in your life.

There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

I'm an actor that cares.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

So listen, man, "weird" is my middle name. I'm ready for anything. The weirder, the better.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.

Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.

I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.