"When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up."

"I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma."

"Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me."

"You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man."

"When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo."

"I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father."

"I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud."

"I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from."

"I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost."

"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."

"Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully"

"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."

"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."

"Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example."

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying."

"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."

"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."

"It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,"

"There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does."

"Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires."

"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."

"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example."

"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."

"It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them"

"Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example."

"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."

"Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please."

"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."

"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."

"Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others."

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

"It is not enough to succeed, others must fail."

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

"There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not."

"One forgives to the degree that one loves."

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

"Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another."

"For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice."

"The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires."

"All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."

"True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world."

"We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger."

"Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves."

"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."

"The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy"

"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred."

"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."