The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.