My inspiration is my hometown.

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.