Quotes

It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.

I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks.

Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.

My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel.

You'd think they could spit out shows better than 'Champs' and 'High Incident' with the pool of talent involved, unless they're just throwing money at people to create shows and they're not really behind them. I mean, the best thing they can do is 'Champs,' a half-hour comedy about men being stupid? People can just look around and see that.

My life has taken on a different course. I've got a responsibility now not just as a husband but as a father.

There's so much showmanship and gamesmanship involved in politics, it's really not a stretch to imagine an actor getting involved in being a figurehead for a political party. But for myself personally, I just don't think I could do that.

One of the things I'm most proud of is actually saying I'm going to do something and doing it.

Being asked to carry a major show with the restrictions that are thrown on you is very limiting. I'd rather hit it hard, do it right, and walk away.

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.

That's what frees up an actor: when you don't have to be responsible to likability.

I thought I was signed up to be on 'Heroes.' It turns out I signed up to be on 'Survivor.'

It's not stupid TV, it's not a reality program. It actually is complex. There's many layers to 'Heroes.'

I have a channel on YouTube called Buckshotwon. It started off as a kind of joke, just behind-the-scenes goofs.

We all have great faith in the writing team that puts together 'Heroes.'

There's probably somebody out there who has been dying to be Tony Stark, their whole life, and it will never happen. And then, it comes to me because I happened to do 'Heroes.' I mean, I love it. I'm totally respectful of the position, but I wasn't pursuing it.

I'm used to working with a rehearsal process and your body. It's a different thing to just be a voice. It's liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it's limiting because it's just your voice.

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up.