I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

My God...it can think.

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.