I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

I grew up in Minnesota.

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

I love everything Minnesota.

Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

What I love doing is taking my dog for runs.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

If you are always taking the right actions that your goals demand, it would almost be impossible to ever experience a stagnant state of existence.

America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

Correct your mistake as soon as you have found it.