Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

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.

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

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

The moment where I realized how little I actually was, was when Dave Bautista picked me off the ground and I still wasn't even at his pec yet. I was like, "Oh my God, this man is massive."

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

You would not want me on your football team.

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.