To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult.

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on Glee anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.

I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.

I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience