But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

Well, youre not incorrect on either front, because absolutely, there are children here in this country that need help as are everywhere in the world.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.

Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.