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.

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

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.

I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.