I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.