Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

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 end, Nora, there’s only time. All we have is time…and even if this wasn’t happening, we still don’t ever have much…no one does. We only have the moment we’re in. We have right now.

If someone hurts you, he is hurting himself. He may not be able to escape that hurt in his lifetime.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

We're animals. We're violent.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.