I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.

When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

I don't think what I have to say is that important.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

I open to anything... just about anything.

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.

If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.

I am proud to be Latino.

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.