If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

I look upon pride as a sin.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.

How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

I don't analyze things like titles.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

I don't have a favorite genre. I think 'genre' is a literary term. I don't have a favorite kind or type of movie. I like the ones that are good.

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

I love cinema.

I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

I'm a hedonist.

I'm always happy to have a job.

I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.