I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

Love brings passionate patience to create a wonderful world of beauty and magnificence.

Truly there is a Living God, and He is the hearer and answerer of prayer.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.