Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.
I was in college, it was my first year of college when I got the show, so I've been kinda' partying a lot and drinking a lot and I've never been stoned and when I got the show I got really serious. . . So I kinda stop drinking, cold turkey so I had never been stoned until. . . It's something that happened with Mila and Ashton.
It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.
It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.
I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.
The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.