Part of the way that I work is to observe.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right.

The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.

My team and I live by 3 words: RELATE. LOVE. INSPIRE

If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for