I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.