I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.