Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

Well, youre not incorrect on either front, because absolutely, there are children here in this country that need help as are everywhere in the world.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

The efforts of tracking small achievements every day creates a record of your progress. Do this consistently and it will serve you well.

A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.