You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.

Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.

A wise man’s questions contain half the answer.

Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

Keep your head up because one day one person will fight like hell for you, the same as you would for them, and it will be a deep love. So keep your head up.

As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

A winner never whines.

Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled.

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.