I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I think work begets work.

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.

I'm not much of a jokester.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.

A little humility never hurts.

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

Once weve made a decision we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

Rightly onward, pursue your dreams.

I have a very good relationship with my peers both on and off the pitch.

In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.