As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

Life is not about perfection. It's about persistence.

He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like.

Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.