Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Art is competitive.

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.

I love working in Texas anywhere.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

The devil's name is dullness.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.