Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.