My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.

You might be a redneck if...your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

You might be a redneck if going to the bathroom involves shoes and a flashlight.

God created every man

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

I don't believe in sexual love.

Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.