I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

linear brains can't curve a thought.

I have to wonder, ” Aaron said, 'does your conscience whack you upside the head every time you contemplate taking a little time to just enjoy life?' - from Fly Away With Me

Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.

Love The Way Love, Loves You

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

God built the universe on numbers.

It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.