I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn’t quite know; they haven’t been tested.

Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He’s such a great actor, he’s off the hook. I love him.

With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn’t say… eh, that’s Josh Lucas.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn’t interacted with many people my age, and I didn’t really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

I don’t think that digital photography is romantic yet. It’s not sympathetic the way that film is.

I feel it’s a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling… to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

When I did start writing books, I didn’t realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

Boxing, for me, it’s the beginning of all sports. I’m willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that’s something innate in all of...

I have four brothers and two sisters.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

Put good energy out. Get good energy back.

I’m thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I’ve got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony – and my daughter Grammy.

It’s more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

Idolizing is a strong word, though. I’m happy that people respond well to the work I’m doing now. If anyone admires what I’m doing in any way, then I’m really proud of it.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

I think I’m extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you’re getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can’t always control what happens to us, but we can always...

The film is set in 1979, which isn’t that long ago, but it’s a complete period piece. Things have changed so drastically socially since then.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

Concentrate, don’t embroider.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, HE was a genius.

As a man, I’ve been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

I’m currently trying to direct my own material.

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that’s all I want to...

Personally, I think that stuff is all fading out but we wanted to definitely distance ourselves from that and there is no Rapping going on here.

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is – Spirit!

I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

I’m about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.

I don’t even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they’ll contact me.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus — there being no past...

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn’t reach the market that People magazine does.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible… but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see...

I don’t have the time to tell you all the things I’ve learned from this cast. It’s an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

I think I’m a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

We’re the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.