As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

I go through phases where I'll overuse words. S.E. Hinton, who wrote The Outsiders - she and I have been in contact for the 50th anniversary of the book - and she said, "You still owe me the 10 dollars that we bet that you couldn't stop saying the word 'gnarly.'"

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.