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" I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember. "

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" I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them. "

" I demand excellence from the people I work with. "

" A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie. "

" I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will. "

" When I turned 18, my agent was like, 'You should change from Ricky to Rick.' So I thought it was a good idea. Rick never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it. "

" In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns. "

" I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me. "

" I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs. "

" There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it. "

" I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then. "

" I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8. "

" There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write - I wrote 'Black Cloud' in six weeks - it opened up a whole new world for me. "

" I don't like doing movies that are meaningless or unrealistic. I like things with a lot of reality to them. I'm a pretty serious kind of person myself. Things affect me. "

" Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world. "

" I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed. "

" I became a country music fan in 1990 when I moved to Colorado. It was my first exposure to it because I'm from a city. I've been a fan of country music ever since. "

" I was never really comfortable doing comedy. "

" I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger. "

" I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of 'Star Wars' - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role. "

" I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career. "

" I never thought I was good enough actually to write. "

" It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful. "

" My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor. "

" I'm absolutely an optimist. It's the only way to get through life. "

" I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did. "

" Trying to understand women is a tall order period. "

" I always knew I was going to be a family man. "

" Working on 'NYPD Blue' and '24', those two series, I did full runs on those. It's great work, but everything has to align. The producers have to want you; the network has to want you; there has to be great writing; and it's not as easy as it may appear to the outsiders to make all those things align. "

" You always hear about people going through miscarriages and you never understand what one is like unless you go through it. "

" I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. "