I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Seek your own answers in life, and not what others dictate to you.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I've been fortunate. I've had no residual effects whatsoever. I got out just in time.

The let-alone lies not in your good will.