I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I just never fantasized about Mr. Rogers, but I like his whole vibe.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

I know many great actors who have small heads.

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.

No matter how hard the battle gets, or no matter how many people don't believe in your dream, never give up

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Its the things that you notice when youre not actually with your instrument that in fact become so interesting and that you you want to explore through this tiny tiny surface of a drum.

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

A person is known by the company he keeps

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

We go to the grave of a friend saying A man is dead but angels throng about him saying A man is born.

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.