I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.
Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.
Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.
Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.
What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.
I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.
I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.
