I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.

You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Determined is a quiet inner resolve, focused on your purpose.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been a leader.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.