In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

I didn't understand this idea of a God who says, "You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I'm the best, and then I'll give you eternal happiness. If you won't, then you don't get it!" It seemed to be about ego. I can't see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me.

I believe you make your day. You make your life.

The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.