I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

I just want to do cool stuff.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."

I want to manufacture a feud.

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.

I have to stay true to myself.

Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

The future is embedded in the present.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?