I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Forget the past.

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Attitude might be worth 80 percent of any athlete’s makeup.

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.