When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Why waste your time getting hurt by someone when theres someone else out there waiting to make you happy.

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

My parents were all into macrobiotic cooking and natural cooking, and my sister was a vegetarian. I wasn't down with that.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.

Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

I choose not to place DIS in my ability.

The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.

My plant-based diet plus fish is to credit for my low blood pressure, high energy, and robust immunity.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

keep moving. It's hard for old age to hit a moving target.

Water links us to our neighbor in a way more profound and complex than any other.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.