I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

Make life as a lifelong love affair with yourself.

True wisdom is hidden in the fear of the Lord.

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

I wouldn't say there is one guy that I would say patterns himself after me.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts