I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.