I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?

London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

Do something: You can always correct something but you can never correct nothing.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

A lot of boys will let me down but a real man wouldn't do it like that.

But everything you do in life has a downside.

Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to catalyze the next phase of your evolution. Do what's necessary to run into that person.