“There’s a point you get to on the stage where you’re not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.”

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can – they want the popular vote.

Listen! We’re not just doing this for the money! We’re doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn’t want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Rural towns aren’t always idyllic. It’s easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

I want to be one of the top guys in the back end and make sure I keep our team in line and doing the right things in front of me.

It is okay to be yourself, it is okay to color outside the line if that is who you are

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I’m playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.