I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.
I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style.
When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the on...
History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.
Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.
And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
