"You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're going to do one do something crazy. I mean don't just get a bunch of, like I said, models and make them into vampires so you'll get an audience. You know maybe get some ugly vampires for a change."

"These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow."

"Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it's a very dark comedy, and it's become like iconic, you know."

"If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird."

"I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone."

"Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in."

"All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents."

"They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen."

"I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times."

"I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat."

"They were on the set of Bad Santa but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, they've seen Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball, nor will they ever, even when they're sixty [laughter]. I will leave it in my will that they can never see it."

"It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting."

"When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star."

"On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarettes in their nostrils and their ears. They don't care. So yeah, television is amazing right now."

"If i knew my life would turn out this way, i would of killed myself a long time ago."

"You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind."

"Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal."

"The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us."

"God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better."

"It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love."

"I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right."

"When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

"Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength."

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."

"God has given us two hands--one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing."

"We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding."

"A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip."

"Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place"

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. Billy Graham"

"End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw."

"‎Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation."

"Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children."

"Christ not only died for all: He died for each."

"Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle."

"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."

"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."

"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you."

"Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask."

"Your faith and hope are in god."

"Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship."

"Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality."

"He lives in the hearts of those who trust in Him. Our confidence in life after death comes from these very truths."

"Reading God’s Word and meditating on its truth will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart, and will be demonstrated in your life. Let nothing take the place of this daily privilege."

"Golden years' must have been coined by the young. It is doubtful that anyone over seventy would have described this phase of life with such a symbolic word."

"Heaven gives us hope—hope for today and hope for the future. No matter what we’re facing, we know it is only temporary, and ahead of us is Heaven."

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord"

"I have never known anyone to accept Christ’s redemption and later regret it."

"Man cannot control himself, and if he will not be controlled by Jesus Christ, then he will be controlled by Satan."