I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.

When you come in contact with the anointing of God, it not only affects your moment, it affects your tomorrow.

Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.