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.

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.

A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.

The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic

Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus, I'll work with them.

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.