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

If you love somebody let them know every day.

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

Acting is playing - it`s actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

I quit flying years ago. I don`t want to die with tourists.

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?

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

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I`ll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I don`t have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What`s that all about? I`ve got kids and family and friends, and I don`t like bad things. I don`t think they`re funny, and it`s irresponsible to make movies that don`t show you how that`s not good.

Marketing is the devil.

When people wear shoes that don`t fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we`re the biggest weirdos on the block.

(2007) I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I`m not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don`t understand why they haven`t thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don`t participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I`ve known forever. They`re all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don`t go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.

People think the hard thing for an actor is crying and screaming, but that`s easy. What`s hard is a character who never tips his hand, who toes the line all the time. The hard stuff is never telling yourself, "Hey, I better do something here."

I`ve been married five times, and people think that`s some bizarre thing, yet I`ve got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I`m like, "Which is better?" At least I was trying.

It`s not that I don`t understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

I can`t sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

Acting is playing--it`s actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

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

[on his Academy Award nomination for Best Actor (Sling Blade (1996)] Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.