I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the verb that goes with it.

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you, then you play the lead role.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready.

Then find out what your sword is - find your own advantage - and wear it proudly.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

I was really attracted to doing Game of Thrones because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.