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.

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.

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.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.

You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you

Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life.

Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement

I've learned that love takes priority.

I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.