The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

why we fear death... life is more scary.....

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

With every kiss, we'll promise this, we'll find a way to light the dawn of all we wish.

Life is all about moments. No one in history has ever been able to hold on to one.

Thou shalt not steal-only from other comedians.