I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.
I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.
There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.
When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.
People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door.
I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.
I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
