I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.

Wisdom is the ability to make wise decisions and pursue them. The bible said "wisdom is the principal thing". This means it's the number one thing ever that you cannot bypass and expect to succeed!

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

I believe there's nothing I can't accomplish.

Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental.

If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

I say, without characters, fame lives long.