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.

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!

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.

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.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva

Your belief about others creates an unconscious behavior pattern in you which creates the reality!

Supernatural breakthrough requires supernatural expectations.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.