I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

I won't read a new graphic comic novel until the writer has completed the entire series. I got burned a few times when I got turned on to a book, plowed through it only to find out the author was in the middle of writing the next.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.

I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.