I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.

(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

SUNY gives you a world-class education.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?