I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.

True wit never made us laugh.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.