I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.

However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.

To me, comedy is a game.

[on Osama bin Laden] He is either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.