I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Hollywood is full of guys who say one thing, and then do another.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.

Just because the restaurant had Dynamite Shrimp on the menu, was that any reason for the place to blow up? (re April 15 release, Killer Kitchens

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

I can give you a better 'and then'," Ranger said.

You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

I feel like I've influenced in the sense that if you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. But don't rely on what people are saying you can do or saying what you can't do.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

Who can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad?

Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.