A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence, " said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

May your troubles be lessYour blessings be more.And nothing but happinessCome through your door.

I was a talking lover, which most women hate.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.