I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

Let kindness reveal your humanity.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.

I always believed, right from the beginning, if you're going to do something, do it the best. If you're going to work, you want to enjoy it-make a product that you really enjoy selling or owning.

Murder and lying comes easy for white people.

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.

Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.