Robert Duvall

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.