For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.

I don't have a lot of downtime.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

We don't think. We think we think.

I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.