As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

I like things to have rules, I like order and I like schedules.

There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

It's really interesting, for an actor, that you can continue to do season after season and not play the same role.

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

My wife is so funny and talented and never lets anybody fail next to her.

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.

There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

Emotions are not good, bad, right, or wrong. The first step to changing our relationship to feelings is to be curious about them and the messages they send to us.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

My girlfriend works at Hooters. In the kitchen.

I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.