Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

Life's a climb, but the view's great.

Money is cool, but being proud of yourself is something that's so rare.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good.

Hard work always wins in the end.

I don't really like to watch myself.

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

Havok ended a chapter of my life and I get to start a new one with MacGyver.

I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

I never know when I'll find myself jumping out of a helicopter or something. It's like we're making a new action movie every week, which is pretty thrilling.

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

I love my job when I'm not there.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.