My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.

You are capable of loving the unlovable. The grace of God gives you the power to love.It also takes conscious effort and decision to choice to love.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.