The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Forgive is the last best thing i can do.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

The moment is timeless.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.