If you live in an oppressive society, you’ve got to be resilient. You can’t let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.
Don’t you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
You don’t build a bond without being present.
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
Love is just love, it can never be explained.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy – being the thing that I should be most interested in – and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn’t hack the senior class.
Just so you know, there’s a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
Actors never discuss future plans.
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.