I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.

It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.

I really need a therapist.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

I was so nervous before going out there

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.