I don't want to be famous for being famous.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.

Choices and decisions must be supported by your passion, resolve and a productive work ethic. If these meet opportunity - your success has finally come!

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Do not make the Great Commission your Great Omission.

When you love somebody you justify negative sides of this person, but if you are disappointed in your love yo lose every chance to do it

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?