When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.

To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.