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

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.