Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

I hope my children just grow up happy and pursue their dreams. I mean, that's all I can ask of them.

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I really like the sound of analog things where clearly there's something being touched. You can sense that something is handmade. So much with digital, there's a disconnect.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray. And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

Top players don't come much topper than Gerrard and Carragher