It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.