Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something.

Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can REALLY hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.

I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

No apologies, no regrets.

You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.