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.

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.

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.

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

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.