I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.