We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

A big part of me just lets everything go.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

You don't take on anything unless there's fear.

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

I'm not letting any 17 year old beat me tonight

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.