Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

When things are finally falling into the right places, something happens that puts you back to square one.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.