"The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months."

"I'm not a loner at all."

"My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It's not talked about that much."

"Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh."

"My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now."

"That's the great thing about parenting. You end up going places you never thought you'd go."

"To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions."

"When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away."

"My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that."

"Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track."

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."

"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."

"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me."

"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me."

"The shortest answer is doing the thing."

"The shortest answer is doing the thing."

"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."

"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."