The older I get, the easier it is to just be present in the moment, and understand what a man is going through.

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Three fires is the international distress signal.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.