Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

I don't get a chance to be funny on camera as often as I would like.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

It's called the Infinity Effect.

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

What makes us human is what is delightful

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.