You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.

You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub.

But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside.

And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.

One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.

I wouldn't call it ["Wild Bill Hickok"] an urban legend, but I guess I'd call it a rural legend that the cowboy was always soft-spoken, mild-spoken, well-mannered.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.

Books are great meals for the mind!

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.