The audience, that's who I care about.

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

If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

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

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

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.