The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read, and just get away and surf.

I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

It's hard coming in here talking a big game. It's hard, it's hard. It's a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.