I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Look at your uniqueness and figure out what distinguishes you from the billions of people who inhabit this planet

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.

Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.

I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

Here's the bottom line, we're either going or not.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?