"When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people."

"Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears."

"I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had."

"I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip."

"I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists."

"I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other."

"I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?"

"Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing."

"I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played."

"I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out."

"A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations."

"I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a hat and do it. I would just you know. That's why I never did commercials."

"I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor."

"I'm kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I'm all of those things at once."

"I'm as highly insecure as a human can be."

"Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me."

"Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory."

"I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers."

"You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense."

"People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know."

"America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent."

"I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed."

"Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers."

"If you send more than one news van to cover Dancing with the Stars, then you have to change your name from Eyewitness News to Guess What, You Guys?"