I’m from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain’t never looked back.
I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.
Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.
My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!
When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.
It is very important to transcend the places that hold us.
Hate put me in prison. Love’s gonna bust me out.
In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.
What’s a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton’s a celebrity. I’m just a working actor.
Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don’t know what a child actor is. She’s an actor who’s a child.
It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.
One failed experiment is one step closer to Success.
I’m not afraid to upset people. But I am not as upset because I understand what I’m up against.
That’s what I tell young actors. “You don’t have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role.”
If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.
I think that if there can be considered racism it’s to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.
When people say “What do you want people to get from this movie?” I say, “Well, it depends on what they bring to it.” I don’t try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don’t do a part for those kinds of reasons.
Acting is like music and you improvise. It’s like jazz, there’s no rhyme or reason to it. It’s not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
As an actor in the theater you’re taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can’t say, “Oh, I’m a bad guy.” How do you play that?
When you make a movie it’s always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.