When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Hollywood is full of guys who say one thing, and then do another.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.

As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.

Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.