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.

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.

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

I seek and search for the light of knowledge.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.