I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

One kiss changed my life. Dibs on the rest of yours. ~Daniel

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.