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I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

If i knew my life would turn out this way, i would of killed myself a long time ago.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have
twice.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.

Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.

Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.

Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.

I'm not much of a drinker, so I'm going to eat seven pounds of pork.

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

Marketing is the devil.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.