I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

Be yourself, be who you can be.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

I feel like I’m good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I’ve always felt like that’s been natural for me.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn't play anything - he just sings and screams and jumps around; his body is his instrument.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.