One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.

Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can see the beauty of life.

When you really believe that using sword can kill people, that's when you will be subject to the law of the sword, "those who use the sword will die by the sword.

I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.

Maybe it’s the quiet, ” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A business genius he [Donald Trump] is not.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.