Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me

I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.

So many stars in the sky, each unique and full of destiny. I wanted more than anything to be part of those stars.I never realized becoming one would destroy me.

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.