I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

I never quite toed the line.

I'm shocked at being recognized.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

My head is filled with so much crap, or facts that I find important, but that some others don't.