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

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

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).

In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it.