If somebody said my wife's not beautiful, I'd go, she is. I wouldn't say, really? No, she is. I know she is. In my mind, you know.

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made often during the western frontier era were life and death. You had to be resourceful and on your feet to try to figure out somebody. You didn't have the benefit of knowing who somebody was.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.