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" I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then. "

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" What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God. "

" I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. "

" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "

" When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time. "

" I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better. "

" I always want to find the best burger in town. "

" I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots. "

" For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do. "

" I would like my kids to follow their bliss. "

" I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday. "

" I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama. "

" You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart. "

" I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how. "

" I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much. "

" When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?' "

" I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything. "

" I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart. "

" It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else. "

" I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin. "

" Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!' "

" I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted. "

" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "

" What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. "

" My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience. "

" I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies. "

" I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now. "

" Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic. "

" If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do. "

" I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama. "

" I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can. "