American Quotes

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love working with Gary Sinise.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

Where is the harm in the wireless industry?

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.