I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

It's called 'falling in love' for a reason: it does not have to be forced and cannot be planned. It just happens naturally, and if you're lucky, it takes you by surprise.

Where the terror is, is where you must go.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat.

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

If you believe, then you have already taken the first step towards your achievement.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.