The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

I never liked group work in school.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

I'm one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways than a lot of people like to think. A lot of traditional charities and organizations do things that on the surface seem like a good idea, but it doesn't change the way that people think about interacting with other people.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

All war is deception.

Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.

Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her.

I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.

'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.

Everything on 'Sharknado' somehow, for some reason, something went wrong with everything. The days we had the water towers, they weren't working.

There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.

Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

The first pet I remember was a cat called Baby. She would sleep with me, and I could call her from anywhere, and she would come running.

Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

In politics, there are no friends.