I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.

I don’t think I’ve said this on camera, (but Ricky Williams) is the largest part of why I chose to come play for UT

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.