Actor Quotes

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

I declare that I am a bachelor.

I am not gay, I just like pearls.

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.