People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.

I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.