Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.