With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

Prison Break really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful.

I would love to have the power to be the just eternally perfect husband so my wife would always be happy; that would take me to heaven if I could figure that one out.

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.

How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it.

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.

Whatever strength, courage... madness keeps us going, we find it, in times like these. You have it, soldier. It's what kept you alive all this time.

Be careful of those who would only be around you if they are doing better than you. People of such nature would likely become your worst enemies if you start doing better than them.

A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking.

I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.