I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.

People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.

I eat stickers all the time dude!

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

Mr Lysander Rief looks like someone who is far more at ease occupying the cold security of the dark

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

What do you do after you go to space, more importantly? You can't go to a more intense, awesome thing. That's the end.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.