I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

Education shouldn’t be boring. It should stimulate the imagination and fill minds with the joy of knowing.

Open your wings, fly toward the sky To live in your dream, even if it is high

If you can dream it and visualize it, they you can achieve it.

God always has patience.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

As I've said before and I've said it in the past.

Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.