Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

I didn't see life through your eyes. Sure, we have a different set of sight.

You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.

He who controls the remote, controls the world

It is possible to get what you want in life, you must work for it.

Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

Know your gifts and share them.

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.