For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

It can always get worse.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

My name is more important than myself.

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.

I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.

Man's Place in Nature.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.