Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

What i know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and aren't prepared to protect it, will lose it.

The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history

I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.

Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.