Quotes

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

[on his childhood] I was known as the kid who raised himself... my mother wanted to party and have a life. She was young. I grew up with people smoking dope on the porch. I'm not sad about it at all. And she's really showed up since. But when I was young she didn't do a lot, other than making sure I had clogging lessons.

[on his roles] I've always been invited through the back door. It hasn't been easy for me. I would never have gotten the jobs I did without the advent of cable television, which brought back the kinds of raw, authentic leading actors you had in the seventies: [Robert] Duvall, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones.

I showed up late to baseball practice in 5th grade, and I had to take a lap and I was running to centerfield and all I heard was 'Walton'. And I turn around and I caught a baseball right in my mouth and literally my two front teeth were on the ground next to me.