I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.

I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.

Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

Bugs have always loved me.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

I've never been a big gore guy.

Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.

I swear to God, if GreatReads doesn't stop sending me these notification emails...how many times do I have to turn them off?

The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.

There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home and that wives should submit to their husbands.