I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

Not every conspiracy is a theory.

I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape...

It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.

I've been following Jesus for 35 years. He's guided me, comforted me, encouraged me, challenged me, befriended me, and been my constant companion since November 8, 1981.

The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.

I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.