Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

Tough times measure the size of the accomplishment

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.