Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

You can take my cars or my house, just don't mess with my clothes.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

This is 2003, 2004. And then I started - after the Patriot Act, I would always get my financial packages in the mail and they would just be opened. And it was like, what is going on here?

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.