I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.

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.

Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.

What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?

Extinguish even the wee annoyance, as it will grow to become evil!

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.