As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

I think you have to refill the well at some point.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

I get to play a killer next.

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.