You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

It is not the stongest person who wins in life, but it is the most nimble, flexible, and adaptive person who wins in life.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

Lists are a form of power.

None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

A gladiator's first distraction is his last.