The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

I grew up in Minnesota.

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

I love everything Minnesota.

Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

What I love doing is taking my dog for runs.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

A man doesn't want to be rejected. We're really quite sensitive.'Sensitive?' She laughed, her head on one side. 'Sensitive egos you mean. Never met a man who didn't have one of those.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

I don't see everybody as much as I used to because as individuals everybody is busy but none of the relationships have changed.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.