I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

I'm comfortable with the life I have.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

Dreams make those eyes more enchanting than mascara ever can.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

The kitchen is a place I know well. It's my favorite room wherever I am living, and it has to be completely open and social.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.