I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.

One of the most important things is just to be kind to other people. That is absolutely really important to us, and important to me. That's something that you need to help your kids with, for sure.

Obviously, guns are a way to protect yourself.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Being a father is just wonderful.

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

Your instinct is your divine being.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.