"It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important."

"I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies."

"I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers."

"My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball."

"I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging."

"I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then."

"'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way."

"When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?'"

"I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics."

"I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come."

"For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do."

"I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories."

"Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career."

"I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies."

"I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way."

"I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!"

"Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?"

"When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time."

"I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times."

"I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice."

"I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do."

"I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now."

"I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything."

"Golf is meaningless, but it means so much."

"I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that."

"Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic."

"I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked."

"When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life."

"I would like my kids to follow their bliss."

"I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't."

"Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act."

"I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow."

"I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will."

"One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene."

"I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama."

"I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really."

"I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die."

"I always wanted to be an astronaut."

"I've never really sought out publicity."

"I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much."

"Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together."

"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."

"You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better."

"That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other."

"My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience."

"I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them."

"I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted."

"I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how."

"I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to."

"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."