I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

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.

I didn't know how bad I felt, until I felt good.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

I want to fall in love with the internet, but I haven't fallen in love with it yet, because I still have not given love on the internet.