I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I don't just take anything. 'Durham County' came to me. You have to look at the quality of work you do, and 'Durham' set the standard. I wait for things that keep me really interested.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.
For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse.
I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.
I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
There's going to be people that try to sway you to do things that you shouldn't do.
I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.
I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.
I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Power is the ability to get things done.
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.
I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.
It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.
When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.
My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
