It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I should probably never describe myself as adorable.

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

The wilderness is a test, whether we will walk in the ways of God.

I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Love the hair. Love when it’s out of control. It’s like seeing a side of you that needs to come out more often.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.