Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.

Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

The source of greatness lies in commitment, persistence, and perseverance.

If you do not want others to laugh at your inherited god and faith, then, do not follow a hateful and stupid, a man-made sod and ism, mate.

Who cares what time you wake up and go to bed? What matters most is what you do with your life in between.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."