Teachers make a difference and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Every success story has a parent who says 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says when you're acting the fool 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

The more I get to do this character the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

About 10 000 years ago males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals and then males took over the power because they have physical power and physical strength.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

I love sports - if I'm not acting I'm probably doing sports.

I grew up playing sports football basketball baseball everything and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

My heart lies in music and acting however my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

If I stayed a football player my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.