Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.

TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.

Your kindness becomes your courage.

To conform is to be average.

Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.

Being a leader doesn't mean you always have to be in charge. Sometimes leaders make certain others have the right information at the right time to lead the charge or pull back to fight another day.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

I believe in letting karma do its thing. What comes around goes around.