It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

Well, youre not incorrect on either front, because absolutely, there are children here in this country that need help as are everywhere in the world.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

Choose to long for love, to live in love, and to be the love so that you can achieve higher consciousness.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

Nothing is more frightening than a monster that cares about his health, cause you know he'll be around for a while.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.