I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.