Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.