I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.

It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

I do have a dirty sense of humor.

If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.