You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

The world isn't what you think it is.

It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

I've never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

I'm only the messenger.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

The beginning of greatness starts from permitting your mental positive imagination to expand without limitations.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

Train hard, fight easy.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.