All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Writing is the most important thing in my life - above marriage.
I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.
If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.
I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever.
I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.
The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.
The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
I have a lot of energy. Energy's a very huge thing in our family. None of us need caffeine; we're just high-energy people.
There's one thing we all share: We eat to nurture ourselves, to feel stronger.
I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.
One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.
My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.
You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.
I don't fear Holmes, but I think he's a good fighter. He has a lot of pride. But I wouldn't be fighting him if I feared him. It's going to be a tough fight. People say with all the hoopla out there, I won't be able to handle it. I believe the pressure's on him. I'm just going to do my thing.
I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.
Pretty much every gym I go into, I feel very comfortable. I dump my stuff, take my shoes off, do my thing.
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.
Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
Continuity is a wonderful thing, and it is a very rare thing in show business.
The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.
I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It's a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it's going to be a part of who you are, and it's going to be a part of what this business is about.
I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.
I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.
Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.
My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.
It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience.
The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.
