American Quotes

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

Everyone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one's even interested in 'Durham County.' It blew my mind when I came to Canada and no one asked me about the show. So many people didn't even know about it. They didn't even know it was on the air! It's very curious to

At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind.

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Presence is more than just being there.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

The best vision is insight.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.