The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!

There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how much you might hate the character, it makes you understand it.

Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist.

The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.

For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!

The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

I will never play for the Miami Heat.

Josh Freeman will be an MVP candidate.