I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.

To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult.

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

If we let the drama of others’ lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves.

Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems or keep repeating them over and over.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.