The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Little things please little minds.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

I’m aware that, from the outside, this looks like I’ve got quite an ego.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

So you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna do something really outrageous, I’m gonna tell the truth.

I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.

I’m pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It’s so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you’re like, Oy! It’s the same thing again!

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn’t didn’t want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I’m glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

Everyone’s really lazy in L.A.

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

I won’t make a movie for money ever again.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside – and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit...

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken’s heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

If I have enough ego to say I’m a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry...

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

I’m really open about talking about how green I am and how I want learn. I want to be the least good person in any project I do.

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.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn’t have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

I’m so critical of myself. I’m actually really, really proud of the film. It’s really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

What’s beautiful is all that counts, pal. That’s ALL that counts.

I’ve been too many places. I’m like the bad penny.

Kids these days don’t know as much about music as they think they do.

But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them...

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.