“It’s hard to be a No. 1 when you’re not even No. 1 on your team.”

I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.

In my mind I’m the best pitcher in the league.

The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound

I’d like to think that on a lot of teams, I’d be a No.1.

What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it’s the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There’s a lot of characters I can play.

And our dreams are who we are.

A lot of people have a hard time living out of a suitcase, being on the road constantly in different cities. For us it’s just kind of what we do. You do get homesick.

One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.