We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.

I'm kind of the funny guy that hopefully kind of wins your heart if I did my job.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.