It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion..

I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketba….

Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts..

We are a nation within a nation..

My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room..

I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore yea….

If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesti….

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a spo….

Politics is a highly tribal business..

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

So, it's good to be here, wherever I am..

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves..

We are, because God is..

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world..

There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure ….

On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me..

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid..

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom..

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays..

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?.

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from what….