Every day, no matter how tired my father was, he'd put me in the car and drive me to Schaumburg Public Library, and he'd read to me from books about Dr. King, Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure.

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.

What sets 'Archie' apart from the many, many times I've reworked and rebooted long-standing characters is that this time, it was really scary.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

Just having what's important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That's the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.

You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too.

When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

I was a young boy. A stock car guy used to live across the street from us. He'd work on his car, and both of my older brothers became gearheads.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

You've got to not care about what people think. You learn that as an actor. If you get a bad review, will you be destroyed by it? Or will you think you're God's gift when you get a rave review?

Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own. After all, you'd have to be a pretty terrible father if not one of your seven daughters was willing to take care of you at the end.

Those who serve as ministers can be compared to hands: reaching up, they take care of the head; reaching down, they take care of the feet.

We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.

Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car, it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV, and it just changed my whole perspective of driving, and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.

If I'm scared of something there's more incentive for me to do it.