What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

I try not to look for messages in films.