The extreme always seems to make an impression.

Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Because of the gospel -- the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners -- mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?