I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before.

Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.