One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

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.

Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you

We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.

You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.

Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.

Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days. Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.