I can't get into specifics. Someday, hopefully, I'll be able to.

I can't get into specifics. Someday, hopefully, I'll be able to.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

I'm still playing the game, having a great time.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

It's not enough to be a woman. You have to care about women's issues. And women's issues here in Iowa are that we have a strong economy. We have jobs that our sons and daughters can go off to someday. We have a great educational system. And women want strong national defense. We want to know that our families are going to be safe.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

I know a lot of very stable gay couples.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.

A person in desperate need of help does not get the support of even one guy often then wondering from where all these people come together in a big lot for a big cause.

Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.

Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.