I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Doing the right thing has power.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.