I've been bitten twice by snakes.

I've been bitten twice by snakes.

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

People say sticks and stones may break your bones but names can never hurt you but thats not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still havent forgotten.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.

Dont waste your time striving for perfection instead strive for excellence doing your best.

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

A hug is an amazing thing. Its just the perfect way To show the love were feeling But cant find the words to say

Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

I have a lot of faith in people.

Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.