The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.

To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult.

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

The Bible is a life giving word.

I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

I do something about the weather. I stay home.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

I care about what people think of my heart, my music, my passion.

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.