I love getting paid to ride a horse.

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.

That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God's principles. Never forget faith without good work is dead.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

Revenge is fruitless.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

Empathy comes from being empathized with.