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

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.

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

Always do something different. Always different things.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

Us? There is no us. You threw us away like yesterday’s trash.

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

Live as if you were eternal.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.