Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.

I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.

I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

I'm a horrible golfer.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

I found that if you have a goal that you might not reach it. But if you dont have one then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.

Every family had its own peculiar cult to which no stranger was ever admitted and which alone could appease and satisfy the gods of that family. The cult was handed down from father to son from generation to generation and could not be lost without condemning the whole series of ancestors to eternal misery.

You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.

A book can talk to your mind. A book can go around the world with you. A book can make you a smarter individual.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Never label yourself. The less you define yourself by, the less constraints to growth.

As your career goes on, you get to flex your brain a little more and play characters that are stronger and more intelligent.

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. Thats inevitable. Where theres money involved and glory there are going to be people that cheat and there will always be ways to cheat.

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

God helps those who help themselves.

The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.

I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.

My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.