It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I like being able to be a man.