When jobs come up, like a low-budget film like The Last Exorcism, you say yes and you see where it takes you.

I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine sandwich, you know?

Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.

I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.

I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.

I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.

Love is hanging out at the ocean, watching my wife and little girls play in the sand. I know, I threw up a little too, but it's true.

I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing.

Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen to me. Follow me. I know what I'm talking about."

At some point in my career, I was thinking, "Why am I not a star? Why am I not Brad Pitt? Why am I not Tom Cruise?"

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

Everyone is born unique. No comparison is possible. You are you, and I am I.

A Democrat hypocrite will never get harmed.

Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.