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

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 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.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.

Dare to make it to heaven and in doing so, carry many people along! Be a soul winner!

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.

I've never been supercritical about my body.

Surviving means being born over and over.

You have such a huge career ... behind you.

We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.