It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams, ' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.

I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.

My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.

Top Gun was one of my favorite movies growing up.

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're in a time where we're desperately in need of a great reformation.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.