It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

Don't ever allow any of your circumstances to push you into believing that you aren't as important as everyone else.

Well, dude, ” said Khalil, “sometimes you just have to get over shit.

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.

The only time not wasted is wasted time.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

I remember Mom always telling me that all in all in the end the only one you really have is God.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.