"Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging."

"My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor."

"I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job."

"I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part."

"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle."