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.

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.

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've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.

I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

When I had all the answers, the questions changed.