I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.

It's much more enjoyable being an actor.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper...

Do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.