About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

He stretches forth in our soul, Teaches our arms how to reach.Our feet He has shod, With His gospel of peace.

Life was for living, so why as I wasting?

[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY

I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.

Most people do not pray they only beg.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.