With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

Dogs just need you and love, that's all.

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

I always cry at weddings, they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be.

I'm always amazed that if you pick up a script of something you played years ago, it all comes back so quickly. Even in your body, you remember your blocking and how it felt.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn.

For me, a hearty laugh is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. It's a way of life!

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.