I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

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.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

Initially let your food do the talking. You'll be surprised how far you go in a short period of time.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.