I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

Always do something different. Always different things.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

one bothers oneself for nothing.

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.