Remember that the old lady who's taking forever in line is someone's grandma

Im a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.

America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.

I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy and I dare you to not like me.

Anything that I've put my name to and my face to and put my time into, is something that I'm clearly passionate about, or I wouldn't be there.

I'm very grateful and appreciative, and I remind myself every day that there are thousands and thousands of actors that have the same dreams and aspirations that I have.

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.

TV is definitely easier hours.

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?” “Are you asking me for it?” “If I were, would you give it to me?

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.