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.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

To be or not to be wasn't the question meant

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.