I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

She poured her heart into the song and filled it with everything she felt

Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.

Courage is grace under pressure.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

You never know where you're going to find a great actor.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.