“Yeah, I’m very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I’ve worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they’re into, so I’m hoping that I will.”

I think that by now, in the very beginning when I first joined the show, General Landry was like a new kid in school.

Sometimes that can be unfortunate because the work call is pretty intense and the preparation for it.

I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don’t Fade Away.

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

But when I’m done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it’s like a suit of clothes, put on something else.

I’ve done a number of these My Name is Earl shows. I play Earl’s father. It’s a half-hour comedy. And I’ll be doing some more of those.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

I was coming into a situation I didn’t really know much about, and now, after a couple of years, the character’s kind of mellowed and gotten comfortable working at the command center and very comfortable with his troops.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

If your focus is there, then the actual doing of the job will be fun and enjoyable. But if you’re so involved in trying to be interesting and a character and everything when you’re not working, it can get in the way and people get goofed up.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I’ve been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom.

I appeared several times on Atlantis while I was doing Stargate. And they’ve mentioned to me before that they’d like me do some, but right now I have nothing specific to report.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you’re really saying what you need to say in that.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

James Bond in his Sean Connery days … was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.