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.

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.

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.

The things we don't understand will come back again.

It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law.

If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.

My friends: let us have faith in each other. Let us not grow weary.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

When there is no vision, people perish.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.