The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.