My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].

I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.

At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.