My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

You win the fight by fighting.

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

I grew up with action movies in my head.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

Jimmy Fallon is one of the funniest son of a guns I've ever seen.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

I look to you, O GOD.

The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more

Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.