I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

A child can educate just about anybody.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?