For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].

I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul

Human relationships are binary: they are complete and fully loving when both people are authentic or they are not at all.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

As you are, so is the world.

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.