I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have.

I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. That's what hurts the most.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.