The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

Round still, but that's fine.Feeling good outside and in.Maybe I'm not thin, but skinny isn't perfect.The perfect size is happy.

An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.

The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

I have seen her [Hillary Clinton] in several other situations where she didn't look healthy.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.